Saturday July 26 Rides

[luv'nAustin]

Nice ride Mr. Silver and Silver!

I did another charity ride this morning. It was the Cup 'n Cone Tour and started in Cary, NC. It was a wonderful morning and not too hot with a few clouds for cover. The start is always harry trying to get in a good position with 500 of your closest friends cycling around you and trying not to cut you off as they do anyway! We hung with the front group for a while as they formed two pace lines and started behave themselves but we did drop off the back just in time to miss them crashing into each other. No serious injuries but we called an ambulance as one guy wasn't sure that he wanted to get up off the ground. Smart move...calling the ambulance.

Anyway, we were soon off again and this time we kept to a much smaller group of 2-5 for the rest of the ride. We had one nasty hill to climb that they call the "col d' Lystra" and I seriously need more gears on my bike. I was suffering up that hill and it took me a good mile to catch back up with my riding partner. He was so nice to slow down and let me catch him...especially since he was doing most (ok, all) of the pulling for the first 20 plus miles. I told him we were playing the Lance game and it was his job to get me to the finish and make me look good!

Here are the stats from my ride.

7/26 at 7:32:03 am
48.26 miles
2:30:38 riding time
19.2 avg. speed
44.3 max speed
2794 calories
2426 ascent
2457 descent

[Crankin]

We did the 46 mile ride from Littleton MA to Hollis, NH, with a lunch stop at Kimball's Fruit Farm. It's high up on a hill (which you have to climb to get there) where they have picnic tables set up. Gorgeous views of Mt.Monadanock. This is a very shady ride with mostly rolling and some very steep climbs. The ride ends with doing the hills around Lost Lake in Groton, which are steep, but rolling. Then it's on into Littleton where you come down a hill, by the Very Fine juice company. Every year, they sponsor a bike race and that is the finish; I always picture myself winning the race (of course that is just a fantasy to get me through the last half a mile).
I haven't been doing a lot of longer rides this year, so no speed expectations today, just trying to prepare myself for the hills of the Berkshires next week. It was 88 and humid, but thankfully, the sun went in after lunch. As we were eating, we noticed a lot of riders coming by. It was the Memory Ride. One route turned off of our route, but another one paralleled ours. First, the support car tried to take our picture and at one point, a whole crowd was cheering for us as we rode by. That was weird.
And, I learned that it's not a good idea to drink half a bottle of wine and have soft serve ice cream with chocolate dip the night before a hot, hilly ride.

[malkin]

We borrowed our ex-tandem from its current owners who are off getting married, took it and our current tandem to help another couple get started riding.
Not much of a ride, but sometimes we're just called to evangelism!

[Blueberry]

We borrowed our ex-tandem from its current owners who are off getting married, took it and our current tandem to help another couple get started riding.
Not much of a ride, but sometimes we're just called to evangelism!

Where were you guys when we started riding our tandem. *eek* Lots of screaming at each other

Better now.

DH stayed asleep, and I rode to the Farmer's Market - and then to the bakery for Beignets - yummy!

CA

[Mr. Bloom]

Mr. Silver looks in his crystal ball...

Looking....Looking.....Looking....

Nope, there's no tandem in our future