thanksgiving day ride Nov 27

[Aint Doody]

All I can say about my little 25 mile ride today is BRRRRRR!!!! Cold (upper 30's), gray, low lying fog. I'm thankful for my toe warmers and my blinky light on my helmet. I was surprised how many dark cars were on the road without their headlights on. Hard to see them--not so much a problem for me but for other drivers. I almost saw a crash between 2 cars due to that problem.

All in all it was good to be out. On to the turkey!!!!

Mr. Silver---WAY TO GO!!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I didn't ride today on Thanksgiving Day, but my husband did save the day by riding to the store on his bike. Wouldn't you know it, I ran out of tin foil exactly when I was about to get the 2 chickens, sweet potatoes, and pies all ready to put in the oven. I NEEDED THAT FOIL!
DH jumped on his bike and went down to the big drugstore and came home with two rolls of it, and Thanksgiving dinner was saved from certain catastrophe.

[RolliePollie]

Gobble Gobble!

Lisa, I'm so relieved that your dinner was saved! Thank heavens for your DH's bicycle!!!

Just got in from a 29 mile ride. I rode through two completely different climates. My house: cloudy, dark, 45 degrees, a few sprinkles. 10 miles down the hill: sunny, blue sky, 58 degrees. It was a really nice pretty ride...not too many people out on the roads. I kept smelling turkey dinners and it made me hungry.

The downside of my ride today is that the shifting on my new bike is totally out of whack AGAIN so that was super frustrating. It's hard to climb hills when your chain won't latch onto the cogs in the back and it's skipping and clunking and clanging all over the place. So tomorrow, assuming my LBS is open, I'll be riding down there for yet ANOTHER adjustment. Heavy sigh

[redrhodie]

I woke up to no heat this morning, but luckily my landlord managed to get a plumber over, and it was fixed in time to go for a short little 18 mile spin, which I did on my cushy steel bike. I wore my new Eagle Eyes glasses, and noticed some new things along my route I hadn't seen before. They were very comfortable, and I quickly got used to the yellow tint. The whole thing (new glasses, steel bike, riding slow) felt kind of luxurious.

Managed to talk to all the family, then had a nice dinner with bf and brother. My favorite thing was the lentil and butternut squash pot pie I helped my friend make last night. My dear brother, in charge of dessert, bought 2 pies at Trader Joes on Monday. Oops. One moldy, the other stale. Ohhhhh Sadddnessss.

If I don't get some pumpkin pie but soon, I may wither away. There may be a trip to the Sweet Berry Farm in my near future!

[smilingcat]

finally got off my duff and went for a real easy relaxing ride. Weather was very nice, sunny, big puffy clouds in the distance. The ocean was pretty and from top of Palos Verdes well not quite, I could see Santa Monica Bay and all the way over to Malibou. And the color was so vibrant and so rich. Day after rain is always a good day to ride because everything is so clean and so too is the air. I couldn't see Mt. baldy (near Fredwina) because of the clouds.

It was a lovely ride and for bonus I saw two peacocks meandering on the road. I just need to download the pictures, crop them and post here.

Took it really easy and just enjoyed the beautiful scene. 16 miles and 1000ft of climb.

Hope everyone had a happy gobbler day.

[ASammy1]

I went to the Great Dismal Swamp Canal Trail this morning, but only rode 10 miles... My legs just didn't seem to want to go today. Maybe it was the 2 bottles of wine BF and I indulged in last night????

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa, I'm so relieved that your dinner was saved! Thank heavens for your DH's bicycle!!!

Well, actually he 'could' have taken the car....but the bike made it much more of an adventure!

.....it was fixed in time to go for a short little 18 mile spin, which I did on my cushy steel bike. I wore my new Eagle Eyes glasses, and noticed some new things along my route I hadn't seen before. They were very comfortable, and I quickly got used to the yellow tint. The whole thing (new glasses, steel bike, riding slow) felt kind of luxurious.

Yes! I sometimes feel like I can see with xray vision with my amber yellow Eagle Eye glasses. I totally agree, riding slow on a steel bike looking at the world through golden glasses is a very luxurious thing!

[Blueberry]

No ride here. We had to visit family in Greensboro, but there was no spot at the table for us (Grandma lives in a retirement home and can only feed 10, and we let those that traveled the furthest eat). We came home to cook for ourselves and a friend with no family nearby. We did get a nice walk in - it was a lovely day in Durham - unseasonably warm!

CA