december 23 (christmas eve eve) rides

[Fredwina]

Am I the only person how rode today? (being 2000 miles from family does have its advantages)
53 miles - A te person was supposed to meet me , but she was a no show , so I would up being the only female. We rode down to lake Elsinore. A bad and possibly tasteless joke : How did Lake Elsinore get its name? when the Spanish were exploring the area. a foot solider bent down and tasted the water. His Commandante asked Him "Juan, how is the water?" He replied "it tastes like hell, Senor!"
Anyway. the guys had dropped me (what I get for riding with guys old enough to be my sons), but they were lost, so I took the lead again. We got to Murietta and the gut wanted to do some mondo climbing thing, which would add 25 miles. I already had an extra 10 to them and I wanted to do stuff aprez-velo , so I passed and straight back to Corona. Had a burrito for lunch , and then got stuck in a looky-loo jam coming back

[jobob]

nope, you're not the only one !

My husband Lee & I took a 20 mile spin around the paved bike trail near where we live, which goes out to the San Francisco bay and around a small park. We said hi to Seymour, our resident flamingo, who was hanging out in his usual mid-morning spot.

Tomorrow we plan to ride up in Marin County. Hope it doesn't rain too much.

[mimitabby]

nope, I rode too! my DH finally found a wheel to put on my bike (while its wheel is being repaired in the shop) and I rode almost 8 miles in the slantly afternoon sun.! I went up and down the hills around my neighborhood, casing out all the broken trees from the storm.

[Brandi]

I went for a ride too even though my back is bothering me . It was cold but really nice to get out and do somethjing other then eat holiday cookies.

[jobob]

pops head up

Did someone say cookies???

[kerrybelle]

It rained here so no riding today. Hoping to get out tomorrow!

Kerry

[Geonz]

Damp, almost drizzling... *no* saunterers at 90 a.m. and the Bike With Tree is not going to pretend to ride with the fast dudes. So spun around block and back home for 10 miles...
... then back out for the 11:00 group, which were intimidated by the 19mph winds (gusts to 29) so we were going to just cruise through town to show off Bike With Tree ... but somehow we ended up going all the way across town and then out to Alto VIneyards to taste wine, then SAILED East (the Tree went 28 mph at one point), then worked back to El Toro and lunch and margaritas.
53 miles on the day... I"m afraid Howard is somewhere... somewhere back there

[tprevost]

Am I the only person how rode today? (being 2000 miles from family does have its advantages)
53 miles - A te person was supposed to meet me , but she was a no show , so I would up being the only female. We rode down to lake Elsinore. A bad and possibly tasteless joke : How did Lake Elsinore get its name? when the Spanish were exploring the area. a foot solider bent down and tasted the water. His Commandante asked Him "Juan, how is the water?" He replied "it tastes like hell, Senor!"
Anyway. the guys had dropped me (what I get for riding with guys old enough to be my sons), but they were lost, so I took the lead again. We got to Murietta and the gut wanted to do some mondo climbing thing, which would add 25 miles. I already had an extra 10 to them and I wanted to do stuff aprez-velo , so I passed and straight back to Corona. Had a burrito for lunch , and then got stuck in a looky-loo jam coming back

Oops! I guess that would be me huh? I am so sorry, I completely forgot all about the ride.... I saw that traffic jam today... it was backed up from Corona all the way to north lake elsinore what a mess!

Next time I'll write the ride info down where I'll remember!

trac'

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

SueJ, that is so great!!
I love little foil trees- they always remind me of the '50's, when I was a trike (oops, I mean TIKE).

(Am I that old already?..... )

[Geonz]

It's even better at night with all the blinking lights Check your walgreen's - lights running on 4AA batteries were 99 cents ...

[Fredwina]

Oops! I guess that would be me huh? I am so sorry, I completely forgot all about the ride.... I saw that traffic jam today... it was backed up from Corona all the way to north lake elsinore what a mess!

Next time I'll write the ride info down where I'll remember!

trac'

A little voice in my head was tell me to send you a pm earlier this week - I should have paid attention Maybe next time. I wasn't sure anyone was going to show with forecast calling for 45mph winds and dust storms
I almost went over 74 to the 215 - It was a kidnapping with a police shooting - probably should have

[makbike]

I spent a few minutes on the trainer before heading to Evansville to join my parents and brothers in an early Christmas celebration. I had hoped to spend at least an hour on the trainer/bike but spent the morning at the clinic where I work part-time with my kitten Twister. She started squinting last night and I wanted her eye checked out before everyone disappeared for the holiday weekend. Eye seems to be okay - no scratch found, possible infection so we came home armed with a triple antibiotic ointment.

My family also surprised me with a birthday cake (birthday is still 10 days away). They usually tell me if we are going to celebrate early so this one took me surprise - nice to spend it with family for I'm typically alone on my birthday. My brother/sister-in-law gave me a TE shirt (Hill Slug) and matching socks! I'm such a slug on my recumbent but I've promised myself I'm going to get better in 2007.

So the few miles (a grand 7) on the trainer this morning did not offset the prime rib dinner and ice cream birthday cake I enjoyed with my family today. I guess I'll have to ride tomorrow to work some of it off and prepare myself for all the calories I'll take in on Christmas day when I return to Evansville to spend the day with my parents, younger brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew.

[Wahine]

I rode my trainer today too. 1 hour 10. Thank God for the iPod. I also tried to swim but I recently strained my shoulder so I ended up getting out of the pool early.

We had about a foot of snow today so riding outside was out of the question. But lucky for me, the snow was perfect for snowman construction so my DH and I made a lovely, gender neutral snow person, complete with carrot nose, terra cotta pieces for eyes and fabulous sticks for arms. My DH even donated a hat to the cause. It was fabulous, I haven't made a snow man since I was a teenager.

Aaaaahhh. Life is good.

[Grog]

Rode 63 km in the rain. Rather unpleasant, but once you're wet you're wet. 4 celcius, too. (About ... hum, 37 F?) Eventually my right toes became really cold but that was after over two hours on the bike. My booty got sore, too, I hadn't been in the saddle for so long in a while... I think I totally bonked on the way back but I was too cold and tired to fetch my bars in my coat pocket so with 5 km to go I just rode home...

Why so persistent? I still have 240 km to ride before January the 1st!!! (And that's after counting today's 63.) I'm going to try to get a 50 tomorrow, and then it will have to be crushed in on the 29th, 30th and 31st, because there will be no other time! There better be no other windstorm!!!!

Glad to read everyone else is riding, it's motivating!

[Toni]

I am impressed! 63 km in the rain.........you are one tough woman. Best of luck on reaching your goal, I have no doubt you will make it (more like crush it!! ).