TE on BikeJournal-International ladies unite!

[RoadRaven]

Yeah... I knew you were just joshing, Trek... but I didn't think to look at the names - I know you are Antipodean too!!!

Anyways Lisa... I reckon we get the better part of the deal... we get to set a beginning goal for you all... then we have a rest while you reach our mileage and set us our final goal. BUT you do NOT get a rest! You have to do it in one hit...

Then Spring arrives, we are rested and rearing to go and get to chase the "score"... woohoo!

Good relay of a kind!

[light_sabe_r]

All the warm weather girls will have to do the riding for us all for now. Then when Spring hits us Northern gals we'll take over from the Southern gals who will be exhausted at that point! Like a giant relay race!

We're doing our best!!!

[crazycanuck]

Weeell..I'll be doing my best not to melt this week whilst biking...

I only managed 10km on our camp/bike weekend...No way am i biking uphill in 35c..!!!!

CrazyC trying hard not to look at the BOM (www.bom.gov.au) 7 day weather forecast

c

[crazycanuck]

Hey, what's happened?? Geonz, Easterbird, kaytee & pinkbike... Geonz-YOu're normally ahead of me on the TE standings over at BJ.

I am a bit worried.

Light? LPH? RR? Thistle? Rey?

If you're doing indoor km's, that's ok too Just want to make sure you guys are still out there!!

c

[lph]

I'm still here canuck! Still some snow in the woods, so no biking in the weekends, and I try to squeeze in a ski trip or two during the week.

But the guys right behind me on my bike-to-work campaign stats have started smirking about how they're closing in. Nr. 3 recently passed nr. 2 on the distance stats and sent me an email with 1 sentence:

"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"

Hmpf.

Biking to work with skis strapped to my bike MIGHT be possible, but skiing home with my BIKE in tow sounds a bit too MacGyverish.

[Thistle]

had tradies here all week.... and not working at uni cos the office is too damn hot (it's 30 - 34 degrees inside )... so i'm not riding in everyday.

hope to do some early morning rides this week... my km's are looking very sad

[crazycanuck]

Lph-Towing your bike behind you sounds quite exciting actually. I wonder if you could actually do it. Ahhh..how I loved MacGuyver..
Skiing

Thistle-Hopefully the weather will cool down a bit

C

[KayTee]

Hey, what's happened?? Geonz, Easterbird, kaytee & pinkbike... Geonz-YOu're normally ahead of me on the TE standings over at BJ.

I'm still here but am chomping at the bit and very frustrated. We had to cut last Sunday's rides short due to freezing rain on the road, and for same reason our indoor group spin session was canceled Thursday night (and I worked late?!). Today is GORGEOUS outdoors and where am I? Indoors at the dental office! DH is doing an emergency root canal, and no staff was available to go in with him today. I hope they'll finish up soon, maybe we can get 30 miles anyway. Sheesh.

[light_sabe_r]

I wish I could do some indoor kms... Right now though I'm in training for the caloundra Tri on Sunday and Have to do the other diciplines as well as my rides...

did put in a nice 45km ride on Saturday though.

[mimitabby]

hey, i'm still there, a mile behind Tattiefritter and quite aways behind badJuJu.

But it's winter here, look out... hehehe (no, i'll never catch up, you guys are great!

[Duck on Wheels]

...Biking to work with skis strapped to my bike MIGHT be possible, but skiing home with my BIKE in tow sounds a bit too MacGyverish.

I have one word that could solve this problem: pulk!

http://www.snowboat.no/Pulkdesign-filer/image002.jpg
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/arc...rd_222890a.jpg (That's Vegard Ulvang, btw, multiple Olympic x-country skiing champ with his daughter in tow.)
http://images.google.no/imgres?imgur...%3Dno%26sa%3DG

Cycling with skis in tow: lash skis into the pulk and tape the hip harness snug at the top of the rear fork. Maybe with an ingenious wheel mount under the pulk?
Skiing with bike in tow: lash bike onto pulk and wear the harness around your hips.

[lph]

shoulda known somebody would come up with a bright idea

We have a pulk actually, it's the same one my dh and his brother sat in when he was small so it must be over 30 years old. We used it for our son, but he never liked it much. It was pretty beaten up and the windscreen was too short so that I think he got snow in his face.

My dh used to carry him in a "Baby Bjorn" soft harness when skiing though, I didn't dare, I was too afraid I'd fall over and flatten baby...