Rides May weekend of 13/14

[ridenread]

I made it out this morning for a 22 mile ride. I was having a great ride, feeling good, moving along at a decent pace. I made it up a very short but steep hill and needed to stop for a stop sign at the top. Could not get unclipped at the top of the hill and over I went. Last year I fell around this time of year and broke two bones in my wrist so I was determined not to land on my wrists. Not sure how I did it but I landed on both feet on the side of the bike and the bike went down without me. There was a man in a truck laughing very loudly. When I looked up at him he said "Sorry for laughing, but thank you, I fell in the exact same place last week". Continued along on my way with nothing hurt but my pride. About 3 miles from home it started to rain, lightly at first, the came down heavy for just a few minutes. I hate riding in the rain. But I was close to home so not so bad. Took a nice hot shower and felt great.

[emily_in_nc]

Yesterday was just a 12 mile market ride with DH. Rain was in the forecast, so I didn't go back out for more after dropping off the bounty at the apt. since I knew I was doing a long ride today.

DH suggested I ride with him out to the our old post office (where we still get a little bit of mail) today for the first time. He rides out there almost every Sunday, but I hadn't built up my mileage enough to attempt it before now. I (somewhat nervously!) agreed, knowing it would be quite a bit longer than my "long" rides lately of 30-35 miles. Whew, it was a tough ride! It ended up being about 4-5 miles longer than I expected, and the hills are much longer out in the country than here in the neighborhoods where I normally do most of my miles, so I felt like I was in terrible shape riding with him (he's done over 3K miles for the year; I've done only 600 something). So, he did a lot of extra loops so I could go my own pace and not burn out. I ended up with over 46 miles -- my longest since Sept. '09. Whew! It was fun but definitely a challenge. I normally ride on Mondays since I work from home, but I think I'm going to take tomorrow off completely to let my body rest. Even my calves are a little sore after this one!