May 10th ride

[ibcycling]

I rode my first century today!!! The weather was perfect, slight breeze, cloudy, ~70 degrees. Road with a lady from the club and we had a great time. I logged exactly 100 miles and we averaged 15.3. I'm tired but so thrilled. I'll get a report and some pics in my century post. Oh, and I met a fellow TEer on the ride!

Lora

[RoadRaven]

Well... my Saturday Ride was the first in a four race series over two weekends... the East Coast North Island Champs. The first race was a circuitt race, with laps 6km each.

Disappointingly only 1 other woman in my age-grade (Vet 1, 35-44yrs) turned up, so we started with the 2 Senior Women (20-35yrs) and the 2 Vet 2 women (45yrs +).

I was really anticipating racing with a couple of other women but for some reason they were no-shows

So the six of us set out, and we dropped the other woman in my age grade early in the first of three laps. I stayed with the other women and was pleased because all four are much better than me in ability. I fell off on a tight corner and rode the last lap on my own, but still came in with an average somewhere around 33kph.

Adding a 10 km warm up, and a bike into town to use the loo and I clocked up 46km.

The weather was heavy showers before the race, and steady rain in the evening, but miraculously for the 4 1/2 hours of racing - no rain at all! The air was clean and clear and smelt good.

My partner, 2 sons and me were placed 5th, 2nd, 3rd and 1st in our respective grades.

[RoadRaven]

I rode my first century today!!!

Lora

Hey hey Lora!

My dial up is so slow, it took me ages to load and then reply to this thread. And in the meantime you have been in and posted.

Thats AWESOME! Its a good milestone to complete - well done you!!!!

[Blueberry]

We had an *interesting* ride today. We rode from our home, to the rail-trail near us. When we got to the 2nd intersection on the trail, there was police tape up. Turns out someone had just been shot Turns out it wasn't fatal, but scary nonetheless. Otherwise, I beautiful day to be out and about (with cold weather and rain predicted for tomorrow).

CA

[OakLeaf]

maybe I'll hop on a trainer and see if I can burn this cold/flu out of my system tonight...

ummmm - it doesn't work that way. I used to think it did too, which is how I wound up with a sinus infection that lasted eleven weeks and didn't go away until I had to not only take a break from training, but take a week off work I was so exhausted. Take care of yourself girl.


My ride report later - if I can stay awake and rational long enough to write it -

[lauraelmore1033]

Dh and I did the metric century ride in the Skagit Spring Classic yesterday. It was cloudy and cool, which turned out to be perfect for the amount of climbing involved (which, for me was a lot). I was worried about the section of the ride on Chukanaut drive as I remembered it as being curvy and hilly and scary (but beautiful!), but it really wasn't bad at all. Only one granny gear hill, really. On the worst hill--Bow hill road--there was a woman dressed in a devil costume, parodying, I presume, the guy that runs after the riders in the TDF. I'm sure it must have been a funny sight; me going inchy, inchy inchy up the hill at 2 mph in my very lowest gear with the devil woman running in slow-mo beside me. I bet the racer types I've seen zoom up that hill in the past got a kick out of it, though. Dh developed a flat --luckily at the top of the hill and not during the descent. We were gratified when a sag driver pulled over with a good floor pump to get the tire up the full pressure. All in all, a very enjoyable, scenic ride with excellent support and lots of good food during and after. Maybe the full century is in the cards for next year.

[jesvetmed]

LaurelMore: Glad to hear you made it to the Skagit Classic and enjoyed the ride up Chuckanut (I've never been brave enough to do that section). I'm sure I directed you to your parking spot at the school... I was there 3 hours! The devil costume was gone by the time I got to get out riding and made it to Bow Hill. I forced myself to ride it... up till I got there I had decided not to do it cuz I was tired. But, I did. It is my local nemesis... it and one other closer to my house that I try to make part of my regular loop.

Thanks for coming out to the Classic! See you next year at the century ride!

[chicago]

I had my own little adventure this weekend. The bf has a raging fever on Saturday and could not ride So instead of packing the bike in the car to meet the bike club folks, I rode my bike to where we start to ride I have been wanting to do this for some time, but just don't ever do it. So I thought this would be a good time to try.

Called the bf and asked if he would be my sag if something happened, and even with his fever he said "of course"... so off I went. It turned out to be a 15 mile ride (one way) and I ended with an 18.4 avg I guess I booked down those streets. I was a little scared as some of the streets were bare ... and I do not like to ride on bare streets alone... but I was okay.

The hard part was when the ride was over, I was at 55 miles and I still had to ride home!!... giving me a total of 71 miles for the day

Now the exciting part is I don't think the bf and I will ever drive to the start... I think we will ride from home from now on

[OakLeaf]

The bf has a raging fever on Saturday and could not ride

Oh no! Man cold!

Hope he's feeling better. Sounds like you had a good ride!

[chicago]

Oh no! Man cold!

Hope he's feeling better. Sounds like you had a good ride!

OMG, that is hilarious!! Thanks for the laugh!