I thought it would be easy!

[marni]

Yepper.

What I lack is endurance, because it's so fricken BORING that no one can stay out for more than 40 miles.

Welcome to the thrill of riding in the outer burbs of Katy, Fulshear, Houston.

The best and most amazing biker I know is a former ballet dancer who bikes in Florida. She is strong steady and poetry in motion. Go Lois!

I never felt safer riding in traffic than I did riding through north florida headed for St.Augustine at the end of the cross country last summer. All of the women remarked on how courteous the drivers were.

Too bad about here.

[bmccasland]

Yup, I can relate, riding the Mississippi River levee. It's flat, and there's always wind. You can pretty much count on getting hit from all sides as you ride the curves of the river. What's really not fair is if the wind switches due to a thunderstorm - headwind out (normal), then headwind back. The most fun, and only topography are the little bumps from pipeline crossings or where the path drops down to go under a bunch of pipes at an oil refinery. Riding under the graineries smells like BEER!

The wind is our hill training. I hate the wind.

[denda]

I can relate also. I live in the Texas panhandle. Very flat, and LOTS of wind!

[marni]

The wind is our hill training. I hate the wind.[/QUOTE]

I guess the only solution is to think of it as resistance training and revel init.

[lo123]

Welcome to the thrill of riding in the outer burbs of Katy, Fulshear, Houston.

I'll second that after riding out in Richmond/Fulshear earlier this year.. I'll take my hills, k thx bye!

[marni]

I'll second that after riding out in Richmond/Fulshear earlier this year.. I'll take my hills, k thx bye!

I did a ride the other day- it was hot, humid and for about the second time ever in my biking life in Texas, there was no wind. I about fell off my bike I am so used to leaning into it in one direction or another, plus I missed the ventilation benefits of it.

Did I mention it was hot?

did you do the Katy Flatland 100? the wind was a doozy that day- it's those texas plains don't you know.

marni

[lo123]

I did a ride the other day- it was hot, humid and for about the second time ever in my biking life in Texas, there was no wind. I about fell off my bike I am so used to leaning into it in one direction or another, plus I missed the ventilation benefits of it.

Did I mention it was hot?

did you do the Katy Flatland 100? the wind was a doozy that day- it's those texas plains don't you know.

marni

No. I have no desire to ride centuries in my very hilly area (my girly bits just don't care to be smooshed that long), let alone in the flatlands . Actually, the most miserable ride I did was Old Howard Century, in a pretty flat part of Alabama (around Selma). Hated it--made worse by the fact that my group dropped my *** around mile 25
Anyway, when we rode in H-town we were just visting my family and running around my old stomping grounds with our bikes in tow. Amazing how much that area has changed. I miss the Emu farms!