Labor Day Weekend Rides

[Wahine]

103 miles, 7500 feet of up, more than half of that in one climb about 22 miles long. Stomach went sour about half way through the ride and I could hardly eat anything so I got pretty bonky a couple of times. Ugh. I need another beer.

[warneral]

My family went to the Sparta- Elroy trail yesterday I rode my new soma double cross. My son rode 20 miles on his own and we were so proud of him (he is a tiny 10 year old).

Today I took my new bike for a spin and ended up in Madison and around the lake and did 42mi on my new bike. The wider tires, hammered fenders, different geometry surprised me. I really like riding it!

I passed a family and the mom was riding a sweet bike. Bleriot with fenders, and the works. I asked her what it was (I now know it is a olderRivendell model) and she had no clue. She said her husband got it. THUNK! Man!

[Bethany1]

Met up with a lady from the MTBR forum who also has a fat bike and did 8 miles of single track today. Lincoln is pretty flat so the trail wasn't technically difficult but perfect for a fat bike. It was great to just cruise around the twists and turns at any speed you felt like. Now that I have a better layout of the trail, I can go back with my Fargo and turn on the speed. Hopefully we can meet up again. It's amazing the people you meet via the internet and forums.

[salsabike]

103 miles, 7500 feet of up, more than half of that in one climb about 22 miles long. Stomach went sour about half way through the ride and I could hardly eat anything so I got pretty bonky a couple of times. Ugh. I need another beer.

, Wahine. Hope you're happily resting now.



Did our 10th consecutive monthly 100k on the new Seven tandem today. 67.5 miles, 3400 feet of climbing, on a totally unfamiliar saddle that I did not end up loving (fizik arione, for anyone wondering). OW. But it sure was a glorious day for a ride here! Saw Eden on the road and got to catch up with her a little (figuratively speaking ). And fell a bit in love with this inquisitive little fellow:

[lauraelmore1033]

We've been learning to ride our new tandem, so our rides have been pretty easy trail rides of increasing length. Sunday we parked in lowell with the aim of seeing how fast we could ride the river road into Snohomish and then continued on to the end of the centenial trail in Arlington and back. It was such a beautiful sunny day and there were lots of antiquers out and about in snohomish and a lot of happy families and youth groups out on the trail. This was a terrifying prospect on our earlier outings, with all the stopping and starting and shakey steering maneuvers, but we're getting a lot more comfortable on the tandem and it was pretty fun. We put in almost 50 miles, so I'm feeling a lot more confident about the decision to do the Chuckanut Century on the tandem in a couple of weeks.

[Crankin]

Rode 26 miles, with breakfast in the middle. A route designed to get my miles I needed to make 2K for the year so far. I am way behind my mileage compared to the past 2 years, but I'll definitely be able to do 2500. Not too sure about 3K, though. All the weather reports I've seen say warm fall right up until January 1, then good snow in January and February, which is my idea of perfect ( x-country skiing).

[azfiddle]

Can't quite match Wahine's ride, but Saturday I did 48 miles with over 5000 feet of climbing. My riding group planned to go somewhere between 10 and 14 miles up Mt. Lemmon. After the worst part, one gal and I had enough water and energy to continue to make it up to Palisades, refill the bottles and head down. 3 1/2 hours up and 1 hr 15 min down. I'm pretty slow.

Sunday I went out with a new group - just women, being sponsored by the local Kia dealer. We just went 26 miles, and managed 15 mph.

Monday? Too tired to ride!

[Wahine]

Sounds like there's been a lot of tandem riding going on. Fun!

Salsa - I've never quite understood what fizik is trying to do with their saddles. They all look like torture devices to me.

[Veronica]

Took the mountain bikes out - climbed 1,000 feet in 2.2 miles. My HRM was beeping pretty much the entire time, telling me I was in the red zone.

Explored a little on the descent and took a different route. It was slightly longer and a little more gradual, sweeping sort of descent. The trail was really beat up though, so I'd still rather do the harder climb.

Veronica

[Sky King]

103 miles, 7500 feet of up, more than half of that in one climb about 22 miles long. Stomach went sour about half way through the ride and I could hardly eat anything so I got pretty bonky a couple of times. Ugh. I need another beer.

Wow, I am so not worthy! No rides Sat and Sun as we moved my Dad to a smaller apartment so Monday the DH and I did a climb ride as well, but only ten miles of climbing with 1800 feet of elevation gain. On the return, after about five miles of descending there is a short section of climbing and I just about had to stop as my legs had major lactic acid issues - oops. Overall was nice to get out and work off some family stress though

[missjean]

I had planned on riding the 50 miles from my house to Rye Harbor State Park to join the extended family for our annual family picnic, but I over slept. So, instead I did a fast hour ride down into Pepperell MA, then up into Hollis NH (climbing the hill that goes past the Kimball Farm stand with the great view of Mt. Monadnock which Crankin would recognize) through Hollis and then back home. It's a good thing I did a ride because, boy, was the food good at our picnic!

[Norse]

It was a beautiful weekend here, though the temp and dew point started climbing yesterday. I got in a couple of shorter, leisurely rides, mostly on bike trails: 20 miles Sunday and 23 yesterday. Looking forward to the St. Paul Bike Classic next weekend.

[Raindrop]

After a week in Alaska, where the first days were amazingly beautiful..which was perfect since I was spreading my dad and my brother's ashes on Mt. Susitna (aka Sleeping Lady), I got home and found the weather was great and I still was sad so I went out for a shortish ride and felt much better.

There's a lot to be said about endorphins.....