SheGotBike! 2008

[withm]

Remind me to slap you.
Look at my sig line.
Dammit woman, I'm a ride mentor for this and you're my first customer

I s'pose I should go AV as well.
If you hear somebody call "DammitWoman" that'd be me calling you

Zen - I keep telling you, I have no experience with hills. There are 3 bridges here in a 25 mile radius from my house with elevations about 60 feet. That's it. The closest is about 7 miles from me and the others are much farther. So I don't even get a chance to do hills, much less hill repeats. We do have a lot of wind to contend with so that helps, but wind isn't a hill. So that said, I hope I can make it up some of the hills, but don't be surprised if I have to walk on the big ones. I just hope when I do the timber thing and fall over from going so slow that it doesn't hurt too much.

See you Sunday and you better have all your hill tips and tricks ready to dole out along with that slap.

[Zen]

There is no shame in walking.
There have been two hill incidents I recall clearly. Once when I couldn't get properly geared in time, once when I just ran out of steam.
In both cases I couldn't get unclipped and did an Artie Johnson.
One of those AJ's was into brambles

This isn't a competition, it's a confidence building event.

Here's what I do.

Curse.
Go to granny.
Then if I find I can do better, upshift.
Simple!

You're a strong rider, you can do this.

[ny biker]

Ha! Artie Johnson. Perfect description.

I haven't actually toppled over (yet!) but there have been plenty of times when I thought I was going to.

There have also been plenty of times when I managed to ride all the way to the top of a hill but the people walking were faster than me. But we all made it eventually, and that's all that mattered.

[Zen]

I got an email saying the road markings are incomplete.
The women who are doing them got stopped by the POlice and apparently couldn't convince them of the importance and temporary nature of their act.

This makes no sense to me.
I hope they went out again to finish or there are going to ba a lot of confused cyclists in the vicinity on Sunday.

Oh yeah, I notice the forcast for Sunday is very hot.
They even wrote HOT in red letters.

[divingbiker]

I got an email saying the road markings are incomplete.
The women who are doing them got stopped by the POlice and apparently couldn't convince them of the importance and temporary nature of their act.

This makes no sense to me.
I hope they went out again to finish or there are going to ba a lot of confused cyclists in the vicinity on Sunday.

Oh yeah, I notice the forcast for Sunday is very hot.
They even wrote HOT in red letters.

Zen, I thought the e-mail said that there was a new county law and they weren't allowed to mark the roads. I'm a bit nervous about this, since I can't read cue sheets when I wear my sunglasses (no bifocals). Might make for a long ride, stopping all the time to read the cue sheet. I think I'll do the 28 mile ride, both to account for the cue sheet time and because of the heat/humidity.

[Zen]

As a mentor (haha), I may have gotten a different email.
Maybe they were trying to save face. I find that one a little diffcult to swallow.

[divingbiker]

Right now I'm leaning toward not going to SheGotBike tomorrow. Between the heat and humidity and no road markings and losing a whole day when I've got a to-do list a mile long, I'm not too enthusiastic.

Zen, could you pick up my t-shirt for me? I think I ordered a large.