Lessons learned on my first 10 mile ride

[DrBee]

Great job! Even better with a trailer on hills! Awesome! I love it when my kids go "wheeeeeee" when we go fast and go "ahhhhhhhhh" as we go over gravel. It makes the funniest sound. Treasure the "itsy bitsy spider" moments!

[residentgeek]

Running Mommy - I keep reminding myself that once I can afford a road bike, or at least some slicks for the mountain bike, that I'll be blasting around the neighborhood. And it's starting to do wonders for my leg muscles

The boy actually makes me go out and ride even when I don't want to. He enjoys it even more than I do.

BikeMomma - I'm already trying to figure out what roads I need to take to get more distance. The town is pretty small, so unless I want to do laps (not likely), I have to take a lot of back country roads with big hills. I'm just trying to stay away from the gravel ones and the state highway. But 15 miles is looking pretty good right now

fishdr - The other day I was hauling both the 7 yr old (about 40 pounds, she's *really* skinny) and the 2 yr old (about 25 pounds) to the park. Thankfully, there was only one decent hill on the way. And they provided some decent sound effects. When we went down the hill on the way back home, they thought it was awesome - we hit some pretty good speed on that one and passed everyone we were riding with. It was a lot of fun.

[Geonz]

I do laps pretty regularly (but a: I was a swimmer first, and cornfield laps are *still* more interesting than chlorine laps, b: my four-mile grid actually has a sort-of *hill* on one mile of it, so it's more interesting than 8 miles of corn/soybeans/corn/soybeans anyway and c: it's harder to get lost!). Trying to do that hill mile in the same time the second or third time around is a great workout. But then, with the trailer and cheering crown, you're getting that already!
I do believe the residents are just used to me ... 'round here, they're pretty friendly to wandering souls, even if we're wandering in squares or circles... you could really get to know your neighbors :-)

[bikerchick68]

what a great ride report! and yep, bike shorts are a must and will probably help a lot... keep us posted on how you're doing... and know that sometime when you ride without the trailer and the little one you're gonna FLY!