New Years Day Ride

[Susan126]

Joe and I finally got out for a bike ride. The weather here is wild. Way too windy for a road ride so we went for a mountain bike ride. We had a blast! We got about 12 miles in. I'll have to remember to go over to bike journal and record my first mileage for 2008!

Here is a picture of me at the start of the "toy trail" at Lake Sawyer. The old tree stump is decorated with toys, bike stuff, sort of homeage to the trail gods by bikers who ride these trails! It's one of many great trails at Lake Sawyer. Very technical too but a lot of fun! Glad we went!



Anyone else here ride today and start the new year with a great bike ride?

Sue

[KnottedYet]

I'm sick as a dog, but did a 2 mile errand on my bike. No way could I have done more than that today. Makes me mad, cuz I went to bed early and set my alarm early so I could do a good Looooooong ride today.

I could've stayed up and watched the fireworks instead!

[Jenerator]

Ditto on the sick as a dog, so settled on 8 easy miles on the trainer.

[shootingstar]

After returning 2 days ago from our mountain snowshoeing and wineries tour trip, did 42 kms. today. Due vacation, persistent rainy cold days last month, I had not cycled this particular route for last 3 wks.

It was freezing but quiet and hardly any wind. Just a great way to start off the New Year...

Keep on forgetting to buy warmer cycling socks. My feet were actually colder today vs. toasty warm feet while snowshoeing for 3 hrs. each day in mountains.

[7rider]

I was suffering this a.m., due to far too much spicy Indian food far too late at night last night. Ugh.
I talked big and made lots of promises last night that I'd be on the N2 group ride this morning. Oops. Well, missed that one! And it wasn't even wine talking!!
But I got out and hit the park and actually hooked up with the group at the end. So I guess I could say I did 3 miles of the N2 ride! All told, however, I got in 35 miles. Not a bad start to '08, I guess.

[Tri Girl]

Cool trail, Susan. Looks like it would be a fun ride!

Should've ridden, but didn't. Planned on a mtn bike ride later in the day, but was too cold, so I didn't venture out. I did participate in a Polar Bear Plunge with a small group of tri club friends tho (not a bike ride, but as close as I got to the outdoors today). Wind chill 17 degrees F, water temp 42 degrees F. Brrrr... that cold water reminds me I'm alive, tho!

p.s. I'm the idiot in the red top and skirt.

[Veronica]

I rode Morgan Territory and Mount Diablo to the Junction. It was cold and windy.

V.

[oxysback]

I rode 27 miles with a group of friends today. It was around 45f when we started, but dropped to around 40f around half way.

That's me in the middle with the blue jacket and pink buff around my neck, and Suzie (suzieqtwa) is on my left in the yellow jacket. DH is on the recumbent trike in front. I was slow because I hadn't ridden in a few weeks, but we had fun.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I went snowshoeing:
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[divingbiker]

I did a whopping 6.4 miles--it would have been a 2.5 RT trip to the bank, but it was so beautiful out that I did a few extra miles on the trail.

Got to use my new hand-held GPS to determine the mileage, since I don't have a computer on the bike. At least I've figured out one function on this danged thing...