Weekend Rides?

[Catrin]

... I feel like I got my mojo back.

Awesome

I attended a women's mountain bike clinic all weekend, on the bike all day yesterday (drills and a ride) and a 2 hour ride today. Sweet!

[chatnoire]

Fredwina, those pics are lovely!

Got a ride in today! 32 miles, 700 feet of climb. We were going to go with a couple other people and a local club to do a mountain ride, but opted to sleep in instead. The weather was much cooler today, so we rode this afternoon without much trouble. It was great, though it was a bit hazy on the mountains, due to the big fires happening up north. This pic was at the top of our last hill....

[Antaresia]

62km day, all flat this time. Here in the GRVD you hear a lot of complaints about how terrible and boring Richmond is, all I can say is that those complainers have obviously never biked it. We went over the Canada line bridge (there's a bike path on the side, I bike it every weekday as part of my commute) and East on River road, kind of narrow but all waterfront and the traffic isn't too bad. Back over the Westmister hwy to the West side of Rmchomd, and down into scenic Steveston to have some fish & beer. And icecream. Biking back up the West **** trail was SO beautiful.

West **** trail:



The gravel road got annoying fast, but it was worth it.

[Antaresia]

oh my goodness, **** is censored. Lol. Anyway, if you're confused it's this:

Richomond **** trails

[chatnoire]

oh my goodness, **** is censored. Lol. Anyway, if you're confused it's this:

Richomond **** trails

That's hilarious that it's censored. That's a pretty trail though!

[Norse]

Did the MS-150 this weekend from near Duluth to a northern Twin Cities burb. This was my 11th straight year. Except for the first year, which I naively did on a mountain bike this was the most brutal year ever. I thought the constant southerly headwind, which caused my first sub-15 mph average in forever for this ride, on Saturday, was bad. That was a piece of cake compared to yesterday. It was AWFUL!!! Heat (90's) but worst of all - the WIND - the wicked CONSTANT 25-35 mph headwind with gusts over 40 that just about knocked me off my bike more than once and stopped riders dead in their tracks! I have never seen such misery on this ride or so many folks who looked like zombies. People were dropping by the trailside, sides of the road and just sitting, staring blankly. Everyone was joining up with drafting lines but nothing much helped.

On the bright side, riders raised $3 million for the local chapter of the Nat'l MS Society, and it was great training for my upcoming AIDS ride in mid-July - lots of heat training and, thanks to the awful headwind, what was the equivalent of hours and hours of hill climbing work.

[GLC1968]

I managed my first ride in at least 3 months but likely more (I honestly can't remember my last outdoor ride!), yesterday.

10 miles on a local MUP. I was really stressed out the whole time, was clumsy and uncoordinated, couldn't stand on the pedals at all (had to try over large bumps), had my rear killing me after just 5 miles and generally had what should have been considered a lousy ride. But you know what? I was riding and outside, none-the-less! So it was awesome. I can't believe that little 10 mile ride took us an hour, too. I've got a LONG way to go...

[goldfinch]

Did the MS-150 this weekend from near Duluth to a northern Twin Cities burb. This was my 11th straight year. Except for the first year, which I naively did on a mountain bike this was the most brutal year ever. I thought the constant southerly headwind, which caused my first sub-15 mph average in forever for this ride, on Saturday was bad. That was a piece of cake compared to yesterday. It was AWFUL!!! Heat (90's) but worst of all - the WIND - the wicked CONSTANT 25-35 mph headwind with gusts over 40 that just about knocked me off my bike more than once and stopped riders dead in their tracks! I have never seen such misery on this ride or so many folks who liked like zombies. People were dropping by the trailside, sides of the road and just sitting, staring blankly. Everyone was joining up with drafting lines but nothing much helped.

On the bright side, riders raised $3 million for the local chapter of the Nat'l MS Society, and it was great training for my upcoming AIDS ride in mid-July - lots of heat training and, thanks to the awful headwind, what was the equivalent of hours and hours of hill climbing work.

I had a friend who did the first day and then didn't do the second. Now I see why! And man that is hot for Minnesota this time of year. I was going to do the ride but didn't get my ducks in a row. Now I am glad I didn't.

Congratulations on beating the wind and the heat.