Weekend Ride 8/11

[redrhodie]

Yay Beth! That must mean you're feeling a lot better! Congratulations!

I did the lbs ride last minute, which was pretty stupid on my part. Nothing to drink but water, and after the ride when I got dressed for work, I discovered I forgot my sandals. Luckily I had shoes at work, because my bike shoes looked kind of orthopedic with my dress, but with the discomfort factor of cleats.

Without time to get my fast bike ready, I rode my steel bike. It was really wet and gross out. I made the mistake of drafting but that ended quickly after a delicious mouthful of salty crunchy puddle splash. Without being able to draft, on that bike, I really struggled to keep up for the rest of the ride, and got dropped a bunch of times. And this was the slow group. I need to remember not to ride the steel bike on group rides, unless suffering is desirable.

It was still fun.

[Crankin]

I've been sick, but rested Friday, so set out for a slow, short ride. Ended up with a just under 15 mile ride at a pace not much less than my average.
It was about 90% humid, but not so hot, about 75. Rode up Strawberry Hill to start, when a fast rider passed us, said hi, and I responded," yea, we're old, slow, and tired..." By the time we got to the flatter part of the ride, I was moving along as more usual, and then we decided to go up the other bigger hill in town. Took the long way back, and except for going slower than usual up the hills, I survived.
Was hoping to do a longer ride today, as I have a special 4 course dinner/wine pairing tonight that I bid on at a charity auction. Been looking forward to this all summer, but I need to get the metabolism going. It's been raining, still, though just very wet outside now. More storms on the radar.

[Gypsy]

Did a ride this morning with friends. We thought it was going to be pouring rain, but it turned out to be beautiful. 27 miles, more or less, faster than I expected (one friend hadn't ridden in weeks and she was pushing us to go faster!) so we averaged about 14.5 mph throughout the whole ride. Not bad.

[lovelygamer]

Did a 20 mile ride yesterday with my other half. It was a rainy day but we watched the radar and made it with very little rain.