2nd of May Saturday rides

[salsabike]

[maillotpois]

Oh salsa - I love those little guys!! How wonderful!

[Caroline]

My saturday was 170km in the Wicklows mountains. A wanted to go for a recovery sunday spin but woke up too late ... oh well.

[kfergos]

Saturday I did a nice but awfully hilly-feeling 64-mile ride from Marlboro down to Oxford, through North Oxford and Leicester (I think) up to Paxton -- Route 56 is really beautiful for a ways there -- through Holden (some friends let me use their bathroom) and accidentally into Worcester (oops, I guess I was on Ararat Street and not West Mountain Street; good thing West Boylston Street connects them, even if it's a horrible mile of Worcester's worse side), and then home via Shrewsbury (up the steep hill by St. John's Church, but it didn't seem as bad as last time I rode up it with my old double. Ah, the beauty of a triple) and Westboro. Gorgeous day; they predicted rain, but then it ended up warming up and getting sunny, so I just did a jersey and shorts, carrying my vest and arm warmers much of the way. I didn't really see many other people on bikes, but I did see a ton of people out mowing their lawns. Has the old-fashioned, man-powered push mower died? What's with riding mowers for lawns less than half an acre in size?

I also saw a car that had sat in a driveway so long that it had sunk down into the asphalt. I rode by, thought the tires were flat, did a double-take, and then realized the bottom third of the wheels had sunk deep into the driveway asphalt. I wondered how they're gonna get it out?

All in all took me about 4.5 hours, I think. It was a very nice day and a pleasant ride, although I'd kind of like to find people to ride with on these longer routes. Hmmm.

[denny]

Finally got some flat terrain training time this week in Atlanta. I got in 36 miles on the Silver Comet before having to get out of the way of yet more storms and tornado warnings. However, the most interesting thing on the ride was this humungous turtle in the middle of the trail. Never seen anything like it with a dragon like tail. After we all gawked a bit at this unusual sighting in the middle of the trail a nice rider from Team in Training moved him out of the path with the turtle kicking, hissing and rising to an aggressive posture.
Ingrate He's lucky another islander unlike me could have turned him into a succulent Turtle soup. I tried to post his pics but it needs resizing and I'm too lazy and tired right now to try.