May 13th ride MOTHER's DAY

[mimitabby]

Rode 26 miles today on sore tired legs! Rode to Portage Bay Cafe and back in
50 degree cloudy weather with a headwind one way.

Man that was hard. What was fun was complete strangers wishing me happy mother's day

[divingbiker]

Regina, Kalidurga, Kitty (a friend from work), and I did an almost-10 mile mountain bike ride at Rosaryville State Park in Maryland. It was kind of iffy whether we'd be able to ride since we had wild thunderstorms last night, but the park didn't get too much rain and the trail was very rideable.

This was Kalidurga's first time to try her cyclocross bike on singletrack, and it was a success! Lots of swooping ups and downs (mostly in the woods), a couple of stream crossings, great fun.

Top to bottom: Regina, Kalidurga, and Kitty heading across the meadow



Regina



Kalidurga

[Running Mommy]

30 miler today with the hubby. My legs were fried from racing yesterday, so he dusted me...
But it was a wonderful day to be out. He commented later that we should have ridden longer! I wish I would have known that THEN because I had more fuel in the tank.
Oh well....

[Kalidurga]

Actually, I count the ride described above as my first "real" time on singletrack at all! About 12 years ago, a totally inexperienced ex-boyfriend dragged me out to a local trail that we attempted to ride. After running into a tree while admiring the scenery, I pretty much decided that mtb wasn't for me. I have to thank divingbiker and Regina for changing my mind all these years later!

Today was a great ride. We had gorgeous weather (as you can see from divingbiker's photos) after the previous night's rain, the trail was non-technical, and I was very surprised at how easy the whole thing was. Regina was a great ride leader, stopping just often enough to let the rest of us catch our breath. My 'cross bike handled like a champ over tree roots and the one stream crossing I did. The trail was just damp enough to make me leery of downhills and curves, so I rode the brakes way more than I probably should have, but after a few more rides I should be much more comfortable. I'm definitely looking forward to getting out there again

[7rider]

Great ride with KaliDurga, DivingBiker, and her co-worker Kitty.
Happy to be ride "leader" - at least this time I didn't leave my DNA on the trail after a wipeout!
Nice pix, DB.
I'm quite liking this off-road thing.
But DH was telling me a bunch of folks were asking about me on the shop ride this a.m. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.. Awww, they missed me!

[kelownagirl]

Hubby and I sorta joined the local Sunday Ride today. Our house isalong the route so we decided to do the route and leave directly from our place and figured we see the riders at some point along the way. Sure enough, they caught us about 30 minutes into our ride. Turns out they were stopping and regrouping every once in a while so we just kept on going past the stopping point, and then they'd fly pass us later on, and we'd pass them again at the next stop. We managed to stay with them throughout the whole route so I imagine we would have been able to ride with them if we'd wanted to. It was certainly a challenge for me to do the climbing and those guys just glide up the hills so easily. I only saw two women in that front group (we never did see the slower ones at the end of the pack) and both of them were young and strong so I felt good about being able to stay with them on the flats at least. All in all a good ride - 70km, under 3 hours, 25kmh avg speed, 2500' of climbing. I am bagged, in a good way.

[RolliePollie]

40 miles, nice relatively flat bike trail, average 15.9. I'm wiped out...my hilly ride yesterday kind of did me in! I feel a nap coming on.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all you mothers! I am not a mother, although a friend of mine who is also not a mother thinks that maybe we're another kind of mother. But if I typed what kind of mothers we think we might be, I'm sure my post would get removed!