Jan 10 Wednesday Rides

[Bluetree]

A storm is supposed to be blowing in tomorrow (or what counts as a storm in So Calif) so I thought I'd get in an easy 25-miler along the beach. It was overcast/cloudy and slightly windy, but I'll trade that for a nearly deserted bikepath any day. No people traffic so was able to do most of my ride in my drops - yay!

CYCLING MILESTONE ALERT: Successfully launched my first snot rockets at 17.5mph, just south of Marina del Rey. Am I a real cyclist now?

[GLC1968]

Successfully launched my first snot rockets at 17.5mph, just south of Marina del Rey. Am I a real cyclist now?

Rock on! (I cannot do snot rockets!!)

Rode at lunch and got in a short 14 mile ride. Did interval sprints...1 minute in tough gear, 1 minute recovery, repeat. I was able to get in 14 intervals working my way around hills, stop signs, traffic, etc. Most of my intervals were a bit longer than 1 minute, too. Except for the biting wind, it was kinda fun! I purposely used downhills as my rests, and took the uphills in gears much higher than I ever bothered to before. I had to stand on every one of them and I rarely stand on hills, so that was new. Oh, and my fastest speed of the ride was NOT on a downhill! I hit 28.7 mph on a flat section!!

[Fredwina]

My day started out with a Flat tire. After I got it fixed , I did about 12 miles (cut my orginal route short by about 2 miles to make up for mechanic time)
Snot Rockets - I tend to have a 24/7 runny nose- so iv'e gotten good at that

[Geonz]

The commute, on the Xtra especially 'cause the Gazelle is still flat. The Xtra has noises so I think I'll take all those Christmast lights off and re-arrange them more carefully and hopefully that's what's rattling around - but I"m just afraid it's something loose that would suddenly end up in the spokes... tho' it also sounds a tiny bit like the sound a bottom bracket makes when it's coming apart... but I don't think the timing is right for that. Sort of a dull, muffled something-hitting metal sound (like the two sides of a crack in the bottom bracket whacking open and closed *or* a Christmas light hitting the frame).
Which I should have snuck out at lunch to look atbut I forgot. One New Years' Res is to Take My Lunch HOur... didn't succeed today...

[pooks]

10.6 miles for me -- which is a lot (for me). I could have kept going but it got dark.

I feel great!