July 29th Weekend Rides

[Koronin]

No riding this weekend. Mostly due to heat and then rain. I won't complain though because we really need the rain. We are in a very bad drought. I did get to take the mountain bike out on our street long enough to determine we finally have the reach between seat and handlebars much better to where I feel a lot better on the bike. Also it was long enough to determine the main issue now is to find a saddle for the mountain bike. Hubby did the same with his road bike. Basically had to make my mountain bike feel more like my road bike and had to make his road bike feel more like his mountain bike. Those two things are now more accomplished. Now the issue is finding me a mountain bike saddle and him a road bike saddle. The sad part is I borrowed the saddle that came on his mountain bike (he has a different one on it right now) and it's better than any other saddle I've tried so far, but not right. He borrowed my road bike saddle (which is a men's saddle, but I love for my road bike) and it's better than what he had tried before. I think we may be making a trip to Raleigh to look for saddle at some point in the future (possibly the weekend we go to Bristol. Since the NASCAR races there are night races we'll be driving home Sunday and can stop by a couple of shops, specifically Performance and see what might work).

[7rider]

This weekend was all about multi-sport training.
Saturday: 1500 m swim, followed by a 23 mile bike ride. My first swim-bike brick.
Sunday: 4.75 mile run, 26 mile bike, 2.25 mile run (mini duathlon, on the course where I'll be doing my duathlon next Sunday.