Happy Monday... Daily ride thread...

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It is sunny and supposed to be in the low 80s here today. I just got back from a 27 mile ride up Provo Canyon and South Fork. The river is loud and running high with all the snowmelt. A deer ran across the road about 30 feet in front of me. The birds were chirping and the pavement was smooth. However, there was a whale of a headwind for 1/2 my ride, enough that the weather services noted it (20-30 mph). I am a big girl and there were gusts that shook me and Fatty Lumpkin.

Well, it's 88 right now in Salt Lake, and the winds have subsided quite a bit. They blew all night and were quite strong this morning and all I could think was how dry it was going to make everything and that somewhere, there was a nasty headwind. Guess that would be where you were! Ahhhhh...life in the desert.

I did a short ride that was supposed to be a longer ride but ended up being a tootle because I'm still not recovered from Saturday (and I just didn't have it in me). I rode up to the old Children's "Development Center" (a neat old but run down and fenced off building) as I'd never really been up there. It's more dilapidated than it looks from a distance. Great place for birds to nest. And I rode thru the cemetery and tried to find new ways to navigate the University (the U is the hardest part of town to ride a bike through...makes no sense to me).

[tprevost]

okay Denise

Where's my DVD??????

T~


... can't believe ya forgot about me.... boo hoooooo

[Nanci]

We watched the DVD. BF loves you. I told him- she isn't just faking it, pulling the IM out of her azz- she's out there doing freaking bricks all the time- like 100 mile rides and 15 mile runs! You're an animal!!

[Tater]

Went out for a bit under an hour. 89 degrees and 10% humidity. What happened to the nice 60 degree weather we had just last week??! Oh, well. I have a metric century this weekend I am looking forward to, so I'm not doing a lot of weekday miles.

[mtkitchn]

I woke up feeling pretty crummy, but went out and rode. Started pretty early and decided to try for my first solo metric century. The last 20 miles I thought my legs were going to fall off and I could barely turn the pedals, but I did it! It was the hardest ride I ever did (not the longest, not the most climbing, but the HARDEST, probably because I was totally alone with no real trip plan), and it was 94 degrees out when I finished at 11:40am.
DH and I found King and Dungeness crab on sale at the grocery, so we had a crab feast tonight with champagne! Life is good!

[salsabike]

Good on ya, mtkitchn. I could never manage the 94 degree part.

I rode 27 miles today on the Sammamish River Trail. Nice day, high 70s, bald eagles, pain in the butt headwind on the way home, great ride. But I inhaled a BIG bug. Ecchh! Stopped to wash it out of my throat with water, started riding again, and pondered how long he'd be squiggling in there...Between the big bug and the dandelion fluff, I ingested necessary protein AND roughage. Urg.

[Lise]

Had an errand to run downtown. Three options: 1. Ride bike, about 6.5 mi each way. 2. Take the El, about $3 and 30-40 min each way. 3. Drive, about $1 million to park (OK, about $17-).

You can guess what I did.

It was so damned cold and damp here, am I right, Brina, Fuji, Beta, Geonz??? By the temp alone, not that cold, but I got one block out and came back for fleece leggings, full-finger gloves, head band, and toe covers. I was fine with all that stuff, sweaty, of course by the end. Not a bad ride, although I continue to marvel that I can be riding into the wind going both ways! The best part was this one intersection, where Milwaukee ends at Des Plaines. It's a pain because it's uphill, around a corner, and more uphill over a bridge. But it's great because there's a chocolate factory right there, and the whole area smelled like bittersweet chocolate.

So I got in a 12.5 mile ride, and spent nothing on gas, parking, or the El. Sweet.