April 11th Rides

[ASammy1]

Was planning on riding a 50+ mile route today with my normal riding buddies, but by 20 miles in, we already experienced a rogue downpour, 4 flat tires and had gone through 5 tubes (one exploded while inflating with the CO2 cartridge). We decided to finally listen to the bike gods and turn around. 10 miles from the cars, one of my buddies with the patch job (as we ran out of tubes!) gave out, so I waited with him while the others hightailed it back. Half an hour later we were rescued. It was a good day.

Poor Onyx took a beating too! She was covered in mud

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

52 miles total (25 of sufferfest in direct headwind of undetermined speed - but it sure felt horrid)
3,453 elevation
14mph avg speed (tempered by aforementioned headwind of undetermined strength) :P
65degrees and sunny - beautiful! Wind? Not so beautiful...but that's Oklahoma in Spring for ya.

This was one of those rides where I just wanted to cry upon turning around and realizing I was 25 miles from done with a headwind in the direction of home. LOL My legs are still yelling at me this morning!

Here's a picture from the westwardly direction I was travelling WITH the wind. Note the lovely condition of the roads ahead and Arkansas River on the left. Trees still waking up... It'll "prettier" in a couple weeks. I'm inbetween Sand Springs and the Keystone Dam here.

[chicago]

hooked up with a bike racer (that I met at a bike clinic )... and we hauled 45miles against the wind!!, ugggh!! It was a fun ride and my first ride with a single guy post break-up... I am definitely healing, LOL!! Fun ride... he was nice and went my pace (well a little faster so I'd work, LOL)... my legs were dead after 45 miles with this guy.

I also have figured out my Edge 705 a bit and was able to log the ride and upload the data. If you're interested in the GPS stats, here it is

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/i...kValue=7980170

[papaver]

We did 45 kms today and it was great! Sunny weather, nice scenery and a good average speed...

[RoadRaven]

The 11th - I raced that day. And am still enjoying thinking about it. Because I was helping another rider (visitor) and trying to tow her back I ended up over 3 minutes behind the leaders. The visitor turned off and waited for the next grade to pick her up and I was in chase mode. When I had shut down the gap to 2 minutes, the leaders realised I was there, and knowing I had sacrificed my time to help another, sat up while I closed the remaining minute. We worked well rotating into head winds, and the last 1.5km was pretty much full bung, strectched out and I had my tongue hanging out when I crossed the line in 3rd (must've looked real purty )

A really good ride, a solid workout and over 43kms for the day.

[papaver]

The 11th - I raced that day. And am still enjoying thinking about it. Because I was helping another rider (visitor) and trying to tow her back I ended up over 3 minutes behind the leaders. The visitor turned off and waited for the next grade to pick her up and I was in chase mode. When I had shut down the gap to 2 minutes, the leaders realised I was there, and knowing I had sacrificed my time to help another, sat up while I closed the remaining minute. We worked well rotating into head winds, and the last 1.5km was pretty much full bung, strectched out and I had my tongue hanging out when I crossed the line in 3rd (must've looked real purty )

A really good ride, a solid workout and over 43kms for the day.

woohoo you go girl!