May 17 Weekend Rides

[Owlie]

I did 30 miles today with two of the other people from work. It was a somewhat rushed ride, since one is incapable of being on time and we were all working the morning shift. Longest ride on my own road bike this year, and my knee isn't freaking out. A good time was had by all.

[BikeDutchess]

We had signed up to ride the Cycle Salt Lake Century (the metric option) yesterday, but when we woke up it rained, and rained, and rained. So we skipped it. Didn't want a repeat of the cold & soggy Salt Lake City Marathon ride. I heard later conditions were definitely less than ideal, some folks had hypothermia. My daughter and I decided to ride the CSLC route today instead, and it was gorgeous!

Only one flat

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And a beautiful day of riding

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I haven't been getting my TITS this season, and I sure felt those 70 miles. I may have to rethink my Little Red distance!

[gocard]

I did a nice 26 mile ride today in the Shoreline area in perfect 70 degree weather. I've been looking for a way to get to more of the CA Bay Trail from the south bay, but I always get stopped by the gravel paths. I wish they were paved but maybe I'll have to come back with a mountain bike or look for other ways to access more of the Bay Trail on my road bike.

[Skippyak]

I did a sprint tri and as dutchess said, it was rainy around SL, and cold in American Fork. It was so cold waiting to get into the pool and my ride was really hampered by the rain (note to self, take gloves next time, I was slipping off the hoods because it was so wet) my bike time was not too bad for me (my 2nd ever tri and a real noob), but I couldn't do the descent anywhere near normal speed, the first waves out of the pool were luckier. I did an hour's ride tonight after today's rain and it was lovely.

[TrekDianna]

I only did a short 20 mile on Sunday. I had too much debris to pick up from having 4 trees cut down in the yard.

[Becky]

Does Thursday night count as "the weekend"? I'm gonna count it

Thursday: 17 mtb miles with some seriously strong, fast girls. This was after 10 days off the bike due to vacation.....ouch!
Friday: 13 singlespeed mtb miles. We were riding with a less-experienced rider (who's really fit otherwise), so it wasn't as fast as Thursday, but a darn good workout. I need to put a suspension fork on that bike so that I can ride it more places.
Saturday: 17 rolling commuter miles on the urban assualt bikes. I love that bike, but it's darn heavy. Great for training!

It rained here Sunday, so I went to yoga and made it a recovery day.

As much as I'm loving mountain biking right now, I'm really looking forward to some long road rides sometime soon. C'mon, 3-day weekend!!

[Trek-chick]

Did 12 on the road bike Sat. and finally got DH to go for a ride with me on the railtrails...we did 18 miles It is so nice to ride with someone, as I usually go by myself.