Thread Drift

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

lol! Yes, that's right....

[Catrin]

If it helps any, I will say that I'm never 100% sure I'm ready for hills.
Probably best to just go for it.

Pax- that sounds like a lovely day!!

Whewwwww, glad to hear that I am the only one who looks at hills this way

[Crankin]

Catrin, you should see the hills that Lisa lives around. I live in a fairly hilly area, but, her hills almost killed me .

[Catrin]

Catrin, you should see the hills that Lisa lives around. I live in a fairly hilly area, but, her hills almost killed me .

Oh my I doubt that she would even notice that we HAVE hills around here

[Crankin]

I just kid her about this. The ride to her town from Great Barrington, MA was hilly, but fine. It was the 85 degree unshaded 7 mile climb after eating lunch at Ralphs (the place she talks about all of the time) to get back, that had me a little "upset." And it was a 50 mile ride.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well, it probably safe to say it's way hillier around here than Indiana!

Robin, that 7 mile climb up 203 is indeed pretty tough if it's 85F and sunny.

[DebW]

Yesterday was the Run of the Charles canoe race for which I organized two relay teams. It's a 24 mile race with 5 legs of 5 miles each and 6 portages. We had a gorgeous day and everyone had fun. Our two teams placed FIRST and SECOND in the women's division! We were the only 2 teams in the division, but that in no way diminishes our achievement. Here are the awards we got. I paddled 2 of the legs yesterday, for a total of 11 miles in a heavy boat, so I felt entitled to be tired today and only managed to ride about 16 miles.

[Xrayted]

Yesterday was the Run of the Charles canoe race for which I organized two relay teams. It's a 24 mile race with 5 legs of 5 miles each and 6 portages. We had a gorgeous day and everyone had fun. Our two teams placed FIRST and SECOND in the women's division! We were the only 2 teams in the division, but that in no way diminishes our achievement. Here are the awards we got. I paddled 2 of the legs yesterday, for a total of 11 miles in a heavy boat, so I felt entitled to be tired today and only managed to ride about 16 miles.

You suck!! Get back to work.

[snapdragen]

I'm embarrassed. Today I make baked potatoes for our dinner. I've never made baked potatoes before. Usually when I make steak, I make sweet potato fries or roasted sweet potato chunks.

I've finally found the perfect amount of meat to buy for mom and me -- 1/2 pound suits us perfectly.

[marni]

I can't really wrap my head around this whole "hill" thing you all speak of, are they like highway overpasses???

Around here highway overpasses are my hills, I have several shorter routes that I ride in circles so I can get in overpass repeats.

I can remember that for about 1/3 of the south west cross country on the underground railroad ride, we always had to ride up hill to get the nights' lodging and then start out going uphill first thing in the morning. I used to sing "here comes the burn, la la la la" to J. Lennon "here comes the sun" for the first four or five miles of each days ride.

On the other hand, on the Southern Tier cross country by the time we had ridden through california, arizona, new mexico we were hill climbing animals by the time we hit the texas hill country. so much so that the rest of the ride through flatlands, although beautiful and rewarding was almost boring.

For me its more of a mental attitude. I am willing to admit that I have never met a hill I couldn't walked, but I am usually determined enough to get up it somehow on the bike, even if I am going so slowly at the top that I fail to unclip and fall over sideways like the old man on the trike in Laugh In.

[OakLeaf]

Well, it probably safe to say it's way hillier around here than Indiana!

Um, no. Indianapolis itself is flat, but she doesn't have to go far to be in terrain like mine, where you can't go five miles without at least one >10%'er, and it's easy to find a few 20% grades when you feel like a tough day.

Our hills aren't as tall as yours by a long ways, but don't diss steep. It's like the difference between steady-state training and intervals!

[Pax]

Um, no. Indianapolis itself is flat, but she doesn't have to go far to be in terrain like mine, where you can't go five miles without at least one >10%'er, and it's easy to find a few 20% grades when you feel like a tough day.

Our hills aren't as tall as yours by a long ways, but don't diss steep. It's like the difference between steady-state training and intervals!

Yup.

If you really want to experience flat in all it's glory, come on over to Central IL, we have an excess of flat along with a complete lack of curves of any kind.

[Kitsune06]

More midterms, today and tomorrow. This one is on image production, tomorrow's is on positioning. I did pretty well on last weeks' on radiation protection/damage. Tell you what, nothing gives you creepy feelings like watching hundreds of thousands of Soviets work and give their lives to entomb Chernobyl , and nothing puts the last ten years into perspective like realizing the two atomic bombs we dropped on Japan killed almost 250,000 civilians either immediately or from later stochastic effects.
The world can be a really ugly place, can't it?
I don't mean to be a downer, but sometimes...

[redrhodie]

I used to sing "here comes the burn, la la la la" to J. Lennon "here comes the sun" for the first four or five miles of each days ride.

George.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yup.
If you really want to experience flat in all it's glory, come on over to Central IL, we have an excess of flat along with a complete lack of curves of any kind.

Yup is right. I've been there, and am going again to Springfield in about 4 weeks. FFFFFFLLLLLLLAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!!

i always feel so uneasy there, like the earth falls off a cliff if I go too far. Makes me feel like a mouse in the middle of a football field. just slightly ...vulnerable.

If rode my bike there I could go maybe a zillion miles per hour!