Breaking Free - First Road Ride!

[Catrin]

I'm glad it went so well! Sounds like you had a lovely 1st road ride.

Yes it was lovely, and am trying to decide what to do tomorrow I also like having the numbers to look at from my bike's computer - I AM a geek, after all, LOL. It adds to the fun, I certainly don't take the numbers seriously at this point. I think it is WAY cool that I was going 21 mph! Granted, that was downhill, but I will take what I can get

I suspect that I will only have time to go to Eagle Creek Park tomorrow, but that is a great place to ride - a lot of people do.

One of the nice things today was to see all of the OTHER people who were riding the same roads I was! People on tandems, people riding in pairs, several asked me as I was walking up a hill if I was ok (which was nice), it was just all a lot of fun.

Now if I can just figure out how to keep my downhill momentum from dissipating while trying to shift down for the uphill stage I might be able to not have to walk quite so early I only had to walk 4 times, and one of those was due to a stop sign at a busy intersection that was half-way up a steep hill.