June 26th Ride Reports

[Lifesgreat]

Hills, hills, hills today. Actually, one several-mile-long hill. It would plateau for 50-100 yards and then steepen again, over and over. The fun was riding down another road off the hill at 32 mph, and that was using MAJOR brakes. Weather perfect, some traffic though. Life is good.

[makbike]

Pick my new bike up this morning brought it home and promptly took it for a quick spin before I head off to help interview some prospective teachers for our staff. I got in 11 miles and averaged 13.8 mph, slow I know but I still have a long way to go until I feel comfortable and secure on my recumbent. I hope to take my little blue bike out this evening to check the milage for a possible club ride next month. All and all it has been a great day!

I took my little blue bike out this evening, a very nice night for a ride. Temps are in the mid-80humidity is not too awful high and the air was still so no wind to fight. I got in 29.5 miles tonight. My legs are still tired from the hilly club ride Saturday evening but about half way into the ride they started to respond and off we went.

[hirakukibou]

I rode an easy 25 miles. I was tired for some reason and it's humid and was threatening rain when I was out, but now it's sunny. Hope to get a longer ride in tomorrow.

[yellow]

I rode my poor neglected mtn bike today, two rides actually.

The first was with a new group of gals that all ride together on Monday mornings. Short ride but long on fun. They all kicked my roadie butt. A neat group of gals.

But the ride was so short and I was in my car with bike and decided that I needed to ride some more since I was already out and about. So I went up one of the canyons here (Millcreek) and rode my mtn bike on the road 4.8 miles uphill to a singletrack trail (gate was closed so I had to ride the road), found a creek to wash the salt out of my eyelashes (yeah, a lttle warm), rode the singletrack (was stunned and amazed by the wildflowers along the way), rode back down the road (I think I made a speed record on my mtn bike: 36.4 mph ), passing a racer-boy roadie whilst going downhill , and arrived at the car...hot, salty-crusty, and happy.

I'm going up there again Wed with my camera, I think. The road gate opens on Sat, so I'm going to get the solitude up there while I can.

[tprevost]

I got a hilly ride in and went 34 miles. My average speed for riding in this area is improving but still really slow. The cool thing though is a woman stopped me and asked if I wanted to go riding sometime! YEAH!!!!! It looks like I might not have to ride by myself all the time now... of course, I need to speed up so I don't hold everyone up!

It was hot and humid today so this ride kicked my b*tt!

Tracy

[betagirl]

Commuted and managed to not get a flat tire That was 19.5 miles round trip. Then I went to my granny's house to bring her some DVD's to watch, and got a flat. But I was about 2 blocks away so I just walked over and changed the tube. I really need to go buy new tires. The glass on the roads around here is killing me. 3 flats in a week. I did get to hear my grandma's stories about how she used to ride her bike all over and how much she loved it. So I figured out where the biking gene comes from at least. The ride to granny's added another 10 miles to my day. Got rained on a little, but nothing too bad. It was nice and cool at least.

[AuntieK]

Rode to and from the gym for swimming practice. The backpack's a lot heavier when it's full of wet swim gear!

[CycleChic06]

I finally got out! The rain cleared for long enough to get a nice quick ride in after work! There was no sun, but no rain either. Woo hoo, I feel so much better, so much more relaxed after a bad day at work.

I did an easy 20 miles on the minuteman bike path to Bedford at back.