2nd of May Saturday rides

[Fredwina]

Did about 60, with gray skies. actauly managed to keep up. (getting my bent legs) until another bent rider had a flat. two female bent rider in the same town , unpossible!

we cut the ride a little short, but I add some on the end and the beginning

[AnnieBikes]

Rain here, too, all week. I was at the Y for spinning this morning. It was a good workout, though. Our plan for tomorrow looks like it is going to get rained out, too.

[salsabike]

Yikes. I did a 48 mile ride to Marymoor Park, around Lake Samm, and back through Marymoor to home base (Logboom Park). Light rain, not a problem at all. THEN I met a friend to walk around Greenlake, and we got HAMMERED by what appears to be a monsoon. Twice, actually, since we stopped about 2/3 of the way around for coffee, and got soaked again on the last mile. Jeez.

My spouse just finished a 200K solo, ending up riding the last 30 miles in the aforesaid monsoon.

I could SWEAR this storm wasn't in the forecast we both read yesterday.

I am grateful for dry clothes and a warm house tonight, and for knowing that Chris finished his 200K safely and is on the way home now too.

[deeaimond]

Did a round island ride (100+kms) but behind someone who'd never ridden more than 40kms at any one go ever. Needless to say It was painful, but I'd promised to stay behind him for the ride. He was hard to motivate though. a tad too sarcastic for my liking. And because of his speed holding back the entire group, we all got stuck in the rain at the end, 3am in the morning sitting at a very wet macdonalds in the mad wind. Had to ride home in a drizzle at 3.30am. But completed 104km at night. under 6 hrs even though we were CRAWLING (17-20 km/hr) Good ride to train up endurance for next weekend's ride. I'm riding into Malaysia! A town 130km up north from us. I think the sun will be the biggest challenge. cloudless and scorching. the kind that gives u blisters... excited!!

[Susan Otcenas]

Salsa,

We got the same monsoon you did!

We rode the 65 mile route of the Ride Around Clark County today. It drizzled most of the way to 35 miles. After that it dried up and was cloudy until 45-50 miles. Then the sun came out and it was warm and wonderful (though breezy) until we finished at around 1:15. By the time we started the drive back home, it was raining hard, and I was glad we were done!

After I had a shower, I had a nap and the WIND and HAIL woke me up. We had gale force winds for about 2 hours. It was NUTS. We'd originally planned to do the century route - man oh man, was I glad we'd changed our minds!

Finished off the day with Mexican food with some ride friends @ 6pm after we'd all cleaned up. Many pitchers of margaritas were consumed...

Susan

[msincredible]

Just a short ride for me today, 15 miles round trip rolling hills with a friend to the store for groceries, I hauled dinner back for both of us.

[mthr3brghtys]

30 miles today - some in rain, all on the tandem. My first time ever on a tandem Mostly flat, but windy. Interesting...

[channlluv]

Did about 60, with gray skies. actauly managed to keep up. (getting my bent legs) until another bent rider had a flat. two female bent rider in the same town , unpossible!
...
we cut the ride a little short, but I add some on the end and the beginning

What are bent legs?

Roxy - nice of you to stop and help with the flat

[channlluv]

I got in 20 easy miles around Lake Miramar. It was beautiful, sunny afternoon, marred only by a wreck into a sticker bush by a four-year-old that I came up on during my third lap. Luckily, I had some Neosporin + Pain Relief, large Band-Aids, and some Kleenex in my bike bag. I didn't have any clean water for her mom to wash the wounds with. Poor little thing was really banged up and crying hard. I suggested her mom use the adhesive on the bandage to pull the stickers out of the girl's skin and off her shirt.

I kept telling her how brave she was and I gave her a Band-Aid for her hand, and a tissue to hold to give her something to do while her mom was pulling stickers with the other bandage. I hope she's okay now. She was starting to welt up, but had stopped crying, when I left them to walk out on their own. The girl had a little bike with training wheels, and there was an older sister, about 12, managing three dogs on leashes, one of which was really worried about the crying baby, and mom, trying to hold it together herself, I guess, after watching her baby crash hard off the paved path and into a psuedo-cactus bush. I don't know what they're called, but they're downright prehistoric-looking sticker bushes with some kind of toxin in the prickers, from what I saw on that baby's legs and arms. Sheesh.

I need to get some witch hazel pads for the first-aid kit.

Roxy