June 8 Ride Reports

[Geonz]

If it works for you, it's okay!
12 miles is good for getting that relationship going... 13 mph also a good "how does this thing work again?" speed especially if you've been riding something else so you have to get back those motor habits. (And especially in Columbia, unless you know some routes I didn't when I lived there a few years back!)

For me, 12 miles without breakfast is fine. On supported rides I often do the first leg before I really eat anything, though I generally ahve tea and a little something like half a bagel or a couple of handfuls of dry cereal.

I cruised out to work this a.m., recovering a little from yesterday's hard ride, but it was much easier because (DUH!) um... I inflated the tires. Prob'ly can't go *too* long on the ride home, but who knows, I might take a few personal hours and leave early.

Yea, sometimes you need to learn the same lesson again and again and again. 70 psi front and 60 psi back are not going to want to go more than 13 mph into the wind PERIOD. I'm just lucky I didn't get pinch flats, since we were on some nasty roads.