Sunday, sept 13th rides

[Owlie]

I broke out of my comfort zone a bit and rode around the other end of campus. This included making it up my nemesis hill. It's not terribly steep, but it's long and the pavement is terrible. I made it up, huffing and puffing and averaging about 7 miles per hour. DBF was waiting at the stop sign at the top. He grinned at me and said "Well, I see you're still alive." Then he said "Nice job." I gave him a "huh?" look, as I was too busy emptying my water bottle to talk. Then he pointed out that I was still in the big chain ring. No wonder! I also made it back down the hill, which had freaked me out more because the pavement is even worse (if possible), except for a line in the middle of the lane. I rode my brake most of the way down, but I made it. I cut it short to five miles because I ran out of water, but next time, I'm making it a longer ride and taking another bottle with me.

[Susan126]

I rode with 5 guys on Sunday. We met in Parkland near Pacific Lutheran University and cycled through Fort Lewis to Yelm where we stopped at this wonderful Mexican restaurant and had a delicious lunch! After we finished eating we headed back to Parkland. 55 miles on a sunny, warm, and beautiful day! Cruising along between 19 - 24 mph on the flats in a head wind.

[wackyjacky1]

After last week's fiasco (my first major bonk on a ride) I was somewhat gun shy, so on Sunday I only did a little over 16.5 miles on some pretty level terrain. It was VERY windy!!! And threatening to rain the whole time, but thankfully I only encountered a little drizzle here and there. All in all it was a very pleasant ride and helped to erase the unpleasant memories of last week.

[nolemom]

Did the Assault on Sugarloaf this weekend in Clermont, Florida. This is the closest we can get to "mountains" in Florida. I really enjoyed the 60 mile ride despite the rain. Guess I'm hooked now and will have to sign up for the Horrible Hundred in December.

[Crankin]

Well, we had about an hour to ride. So... after inviting our son over, who has been commuting/riding for about a month, we decided to take him on an 11 mile hill ride.
We have created a monster.
He stayed right behind my DH going up Strawberry Hill, on his mountain bike, with sneakers and flat pedals. I was barely keeping up.
He dropped us both going up Annursnac Hill (our street, which SheFly calls anneurysm hill), as we were tired. His average was 14.7. Well, I guess the fact that he is 29 years younger than me counts.
It was really fun and we look forward to more riding with him. He was eyeing younger son's classic Serotta hanging up in the shed.