august rides

[Crankin]

I hope your spokes are fixed soon! The same thing happened to the other bike leader I was leading a ride with back in July. No one in the group could fix his issue, and the wheel was totally out of true. He walked/hitch hiked back to his car 5 miles and left me to lead the ride. We were in Mystic, CT, so I was thankful as hell that we had pre-ridden this route.
I rode with my friend Linda today. She spends most of the warmer months at her house on the Cape, so I haven't ridden with her too much this year. It was fun, and I didn't mind her slower speed. I stopped at the tops of all the hills and enjoyed the weather. The ride was about 22.5 miles and had about 1,500 ft. of climbing. My legs are a little dead today; I have taken about 10 days off from boot camp, to ride more, but next week, back to the grind, in both fitness and work.

[ny biker]

I'm a bit worried that it's 5 pm and I haven't heard from the shop yet. Though I'm still okay for Saturday's big ride if it's ready tomorrow.

I'm going to bring the old wheels home, keep the front as a back-up and practice using the FiberFix temporary spoke on the rear, so I can be more prepared the next time.

I noticed that the multi-tool that I keep in my mountain bike seat bag has a spoke wrench on it. I never new what it was before. If I can get better at emergency spoke repairs, the whole experience will have been worth it. The adorable little multi-tool I use for the road bike doesn't have a spoke wrench, but I bought one to keep with it.

[emily_in_nc]

It's been pretty windy here lately, and we're back to having to use arm/leg warmers, etc. in the morning (ugh!), but we've managed some really nice rides. Just put up a blog post today about two of them. We did the Touchet North ride again today (photos in the blog are from about 1.5 weeks ago, when we last did it), and thankfully got a break from the wind as it was light today. 58 miles round trip.

http://travelingtwosome.weebly.com/t...-of-highway-12

[Crankin]

Today was some of the worst weather I've seen this summer. We did some stuff at home this morning and it was 12:30, 88 degrees and at least 60% humidity when we finally got out. At least it was mostly cloudy and breezy. With the threat of impending severe weather, all ideas of a long ride went out the window and we did our go to 11 mile hill route.
Despite starting off slowly, when we turned onto the homeward part of the loop, my average was at 15 and ended up at 15.9 just as I started climbing the hill to my house. Very strange, as I felt terrible in the beginning of the ride and like I was flying by the end.
I do not enjoy this weather. Plus a lightning strike hit our cable modem about an hour and a half ago; DH is now at Best Buy getting a new one.