Weekend Ride Reports

[salsabike]

Wildhawk: Not Virginia! It's Winthrop, Washington. Gorgeous place, too!

Great rides by all this weekend! Salsa.. that picture looked like the morning of Danskin for a second!

Yeah!

Those Winthrop pictures are GORGEOUS. Wow. And the ride sounds really nice.

[chicagogal]

ditto to everyone who said that you ladies are super impressive. It sounds like everyone had a nice weekend!

salsabike, the picture you posted of those storm clouds reminds of a ride I did here in chicago a few months ago. I knew it was supposed to rain, but when I checked the forecast in the morning, weather.com promised that rain wasn't coming until 9am, so I headed off at around 6. My doorman warned me not to ride, saying that he was just outside and that I storm was brewing. I confidently told him that it wouldn't rain until 9 (what exactly made me so certain that the forecast was right?). So I headed south along lake Michigan and while it was windy, the sky ahead of me was clear. After 15miles I turned around for the return trip and, um, the sky over Chicago was completely black!!! Got caught in a crazy thunderstorm, was soaking wet and completely wind blown, and later that day funnel clouds were spotted and tornado alert sirens were going off all over chicago - mental note, listen to my doorman when he tells me not to go riding!

This weekend I did a very nice 50mi ride in the forest preserve district (north branch trail). I was expecting more fall colors, but was not disappointed to see that we have a little more "summer" left.

[spindizzy]

Hills again. Light sprinkles but a cool, occasionally sunny day

King Road, Terra Cotta
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/attac...1&d=1223345381

Heritage Road
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/attac...1&d=1223345381


Maple Tree on Heritage Road
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/attac...1&d=1223345381

I love fall...

And I've never done this posting of pictures before, following jsdilks explicit instructions..hope it works!