Just a reminder to Team Estrogen

**CorsairMac** · 10-10-2005, 12:14 PM

ROFL - so yeah I got my BJ jersey too while I was out of the country. The weather has turned cold enough to warrent changing to my LS jerseys but did I?................Not on your life!! I wore my BJ jersey!! Now if I can just be patient for my AV jersey - life would be complete!

My desk is 2 1/2 wks behind but what was the First thing I did when I got to work this AM?......log my ride and check the club stats! (no obsession here)
HOLY MOLEY ladies - did ya'll do some riding while I was gone or What!!! I'm so proud of everyone of you!!

**Trekhawk** · 10-10-2005, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by CorsairMac

ROFL - so yeah I got my BJ jersey too while I was out of the country. The weather has turned cold enough to warrent changing to my LS jerseys but did I?................Not on your life!! I wore my BJ jersey!! Now if I can just be patient for my AV jersey - life would be complete!
My desk is 2 1/2 wks behind but what was the First thing I did when I got to work this AM?......log my ride and check the club stats! (no obsession here)
HOLY MOLEY ladies - did ya'll do some riding while I was gone or What!!! I'm so proud of everyone of you!!

hey Corsair - glad to have you back. How was the holiday?

**BikeMomma** · 10-10-2005, 10:59 PM

Welcome back Corsair....as you can see, we've been busy!

**SandyLS** · 10-21-2005, 06:43 PM

I finally got around to posting my miles for this year on Bike journal. I wanted to wait until I actually reached my goal of 1000 miles. Not many miles compared to some of you, but a reasonable goal for me. The season is almost over for me in MI but maybe we'll yet get a few good days to ride.

**CorsairMac** · 10-21-2005, 10:30 PM

congrats on reaching your goal Sandy - so did you watch your computer turn over to that magic number?? - I did!

**nuthatch** · 10-22-2005, 03:43 AM

YAY SANDY!! Thanks for posting your miles - we're getting so close to our team goal. I wish there was a "fun" index instead of just miles. That would give equality to road rides and mountain rides.

**caligurl** · 10-22-2005, 06:30 AM

sandy! you should think about posting your miles as you do them! that's 1/2 the fun.... seeing where you rank and who is passing you... or who you are passing!

sometimes you get motivated to go an extra mile just to pass that person right ahead of you!

lol!

and speaking of the jerseys... i finally wore mine and took pics before the contest ended... i love it! i love the colors!

**SandyLS** · 10-22-2005, 09:30 AM

Thanks gals for the kind words. Now that I am caught up I will plan on posting my miles after each ride. My computer conked out at 200 miles due to some rain so I had to remove the battery which set it back to 0 so it only says 800 miles. I am looking forward to watching it roll over to 1000 when that time comes.

**Grog** · 10-22-2005, 12:26 PM

Yahoo! Just got to 10th position while BikeMomma is sleeping. (BikeMomma are you there? No more riding?) But unless anyone stops riding I'm not going to go any higher.

Just wanted to share that with you.

**Trekhawk** · 10-22-2005, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Grog

Yahoo! Just got to 10th position while BikeMomma is sleeping. (BikeMomma are you there? No more riding?) But unless anyone stops riding I'm not going to go any higher.
Just wanted to share that with you.

Good for you. Its great to have some fun rivalry. I love putting in my ride when I get back home and seeing where I rate.

**BikeMomma** · 10-22-2005, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Grog

Yahoo! Just got to 10th position while BikeMomma is sleeping. (BikeMomma are you there? No more riding?) But unless anyone stops riding I'm not going to go any higher.

Just wanted to share that with you.

Hot dang! I'm losing my status!

I really gotta get a move on! I have to enter last weekend's ride in Maine still. I didn't have a computer, so it'll have to be an estimation.

Actually, the DH's work schedule just changed. The ride I thought I would get today was bumped by him working late....I'm soooooo bummed. I might still get a very itsy bitsy ride in, but nothing like the 40 mile minimum I wanted.

There is, of course, the trainer....

Nice riding, Grog! Good job!

**BikeMomma** · 10-22-2005, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by BikeMomma

I have to enter last weekend's ride in Maine still. I didn't have a computer, so it'll have to be an estimation.
I might still get a very itsy bitsy ride in, but nothing like the 40 mile minimum I wanted.

There is, of course, the trainer....

Sorry Grog...entered my miles from the Maine ride and the weekend before and....ummm....I sorta passed you again. I'm ...uh...going out now for a ride, too.

No worries...should be a short one.

Keep riding!

**BikeMomma** · 10-23-2005, 07:41 PM

The short ride I went on right after my last post turned out to be one of the most "critter-filled" I've ever had.

For starters, I met with three very fast, persistent doggies that chased me down a previously-untried road (never to be again) that was the general smoothness as something out of Paris-Roubaix.....I found myself looking from the road (trying to pick my line through the millions of potholes) to the dogs, all the while growling just as loud or louder as they were!! I can pretty honestly say that it was the worst dog-chase ever, and I thought I was a gonner when I saw the road turn to the left, with nowhere else to go and one dog still giving chase. Lucky for me, he tired before I had to turn. It apparently didn't occur to him that he could just cut the corner and get me that way. Ugh. Had to laugh though, after catching my breath. I was in completely the wrong gear for all of that and still hit 25.5mph...heart rate got up to 193!! Oh my!

The second critter experience was rounding an s-curve, I spied two very fleet-looking, almost wolf-like dogs up on an irrigation bank about 50 yards ahead. I'm pretty sure they saw me, because as soon as I came into view, they scampered off. Now, I am a dog person, and I've also watched many a wildlife documentary about hyenas, etc. These two looked very fast and very possibly wild. For the first time in my biking life, I stopped dead in my tracks. Every little instinct was telling me not to go any further or closer. I knew I had to keep moving, though, and be ready for anything, so I circled in the road a couple times, trying to figure out what to do and maybe see where they went. A car came around the corner just then from that direction, and I flagged it down and asked the driver if the dogs were still up ahead. Getting a "yes" confirmed my suspicion that those dogs DID see me and I was going to be ambushed as their next plaything. Needless to say, fading sunlight and all, I turned around and went the way I came.

Now, you'd think that would be enough excitement for one ride (saw two more loose dogs too), and just as I relaxed and stopped looking for critters, I looked down at the pavement under my wheels just in time to see myself missing a little tiny (rattle??)snake by about a centimeter. Yikes!

Geez...what a ride. All that in only 21 miles.

You gals be careful....don't take chances, either. If I had tried to be "brave" and just go down that road, thinking I was being chicken, I probably would have been laying in it a moment later.

To open roads with no critters....
-BikeMomma

**nuthatch** · 10-24-2005, 03:04 AM

Wow, BikeMomma! Hard-won miles!!! Maybe you need to think about an airhorn or skunk spray or something!

**SandyLS** · 10-24-2005, 03:45 AM

That's really scarry BikeMama. Do you carru Halt? Don't know if it would have worked on those wild critters, but we've had good luck with it on those domestic kind of doggies. Be careful out there. Good thing you listened to your instincts!

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