Did You Ride Today?
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82 miles with 82 degree temperature! It was warm and sunny with the wind a low 3 to 6 MPH. The humidity was low after the first hour of early morning riding and I kept the tempo high, the RPM's high and my heart rate up in the 'let's make this one count' zones.
It was a fun ride with 3225' of climbing. I made one quick stop to fill the bottles at the old hand pump at a cemetary near the mid-point of the ride. A package of Shot Bloks and I was good to go. My training partner is taking today in prep for the Ohio ITT Championships tomorrow, so I was a solo ride.
It was a fun ride with 3225' of climbing. I made one quick stop to fill the bottles at the old hand pump at a cemetary near the mid-point of the ride. A package of Shot Bloks and I was good to go. My training partner is taking today in prep for the Ohio ITT Championships tomorrow, so I was a solo ride.
I knocked out 56.5 miles with 1,000' of climbing. This was my longest ride to date with last Saturday's 35.7 miles being my previous long record. I also picked up my average speed by a couple mph thanks to getting a professional fitting and clipless pedals.
Today was a comfortable mid-80s temperature with a mix of sun and clouds and only a slight breeze.
Today was a comfortable mid-80s temperature with a mix of sun and clouds and only a slight breeze.
Got in a ride on the River Front Trail to a new coffee shop in a small town west of here where a great cold-brewed coffee is served. We took county roads east out of there and the temp when I got back home was 98F. It was only 36 miles but I'm old and it's hot so it was tiring enough. I so look forward to September and beyond for cooler days. Until the snow flies and the coldest weather takes over. My road bike is totally poor on snow and ice.
Nice easy ride with Dave yesterday made for some leg's stretching today. Went out after church and did 32 miles with a tad over 9 miles of climbing, and a bunch of light rollers added in. Temp was 86 degrees with a 4-8 wind and medium humidity. Legs felt good and on the main climb (6 miles)and I was able to keep a good tempo, and finished of with a 16.6 mph ride.
I knew it...a Democrat!
Sadly, like me, you have worked for just about everything that's coming your way...and for 6 to 10 other people on top of that.
Just 40 miles this afternoon after 4 hours on a garden tractor mowing mostly buckhorns. The grass is brown and dormant after a Summer sans rain. Which I love! No mowing = more riding. But the Queen Anne's Lace and clover and buckhorns had the yard looking like a pasture field so off I roared to tame the weeds.
The ride was under a scorching sun and my Garmin consistently read 87-90 degrees with one cool spot on a shaded climb showing 84.
The wind was not bothersome today despite the constant 10 to 16 MPH shown on the Windfinder website. The flags and trees confirmed that general range.
The course was full on retarded with the short, steep climbs coming one right after the other with no time to recover. The headwind leg made them seem even tougher and it was forcing me to shift down much earlier than I normally would...just couldn't carry much speed onto the climbs after the short descents.
2,300' of climbing was fun and I went through a half bottle while tossing the bike out of the truck and gearing up, a bottle and a half on the bike and a bottle on the drive back home. I really don't think I was sweating much, but my skin stayed pretty dry during the ride...maybe fast evaporation in that bright sunlight and speed.
Despite putting in thousands of miles this season and having spent countless hours out doing farm chores...I'm a little pink from the sun today! Should we call it a 'farmer's tan' or a 'cyclist's tan'?
It felt great to be alive and putting in a good effort today! I hope everyone had a day that was this good.
Just 17 Miles with 500' of climbing. The temperature was around 86 degrees and the humidity wasn't bad. Wind was going a steady 9 MPH and this week is all about recovery, tapering and relaxing for an upcoming event.
Before riding this afternoon I took time to install a new right side brake hood. The OEM one was torn for years and the tear was finally growing and hanging on by a thread. I lubes up the old one with Dawn soap and despite massive tugging I did not finish of the torn spot! Campy quality! I lubed up the new one and it took at least 15 minutes of cursing in three languages to get it on with no damage. What a freakin' *****! Campy makes them uber tight and they do not stretch very much. Getting all the little tabs, post and hooks into place took another 5 minutes. Royal pain...
I also took the time to lube the cables at the cable drums and oil and grease up the shift mechanism. Riding is fun, but maintenance is mandatory.
It's supposed to get hotter all week with rain on Friday in 93 hotness and ultra humidity, of course. 98 degrees for Saturday with more skin soaking humidity! It's going to be HOT, people! Perfect! Let's ride!
This ain't no party! This ain't no disco! This ain't no foolin' around!
Before riding this afternoon I took time to install a new right side brake hood. The OEM one was torn for years and the tear was finally growing and hanging on by a thread. I lubes up the old one with Dawn soap and despite massive tugging I did not finish of the torn spot! Campy quality! I lubed up the new one and it took at least 15 minutes of cursing in three languages to get it on with no damage. What a freakin' *****! Campy makes them uber tight and they do not stretch very much. Getting all the little tabs, post and hooks into place took another 5 minutes. Royal pain...
I also took the time to lube the cables at the cable drums and oil and grease up the shift mechanism. Riding is fun, but maintenance is mandatory.
It's supposed to get hotter all week with rain on Friday in 93 hotness and ultra humidity, of course. 98 degrees for Saturday with more skin soaking humidity! It's going to be HOT, people! Perfect! Let's ride!
This ain't no party! This ain't no disco! This ain't no foolin' around!
30 miles, 10 of which were through a summer shower. A little bit of a breeze as the rain approached, but once it started to fall the wind was calm for the rest of the ride.
I finally got my rear derailleur adjusted properly. It's a much more pleasant riding experience with smooth, crisp shifts.
I finally got my rear derailleur adjusted properly. It's a much more pleasant riding experience with smooth, crisp shifts.
It sounds like we are headed for about the same weather, JH. Two bottles on the bike and two half-liter bottles in the right and left jersey pockets for the long ride this weekend...'if' it doesn't rain. We'll see.
The weekend report keeps changing and the weather gurus added a chance of rain to Thursday's forecast. When it gets this hot and humid it could rain any time though. We've been in some sort of minor drought up here and the riding weather has been great. Yard chore time has been minimal so far.
The heat hasn't bothered me this year. I did do a 100+ miler when it was around 90 degrees and I noticed my recovery was a bit longer than normal over the two days following that ride and the preceding week of miles that dug that hole. Chalk it up to old age!
The weekend report keeps changing and the weather gurus added a chance of rain to Thursday's forecast. When it gets this hot and humid it could rain any time though. We've been in some sort of minor drought up here and the riding weather has been great. Yard chore time has been minimal so far.
The heat hasn't bothered me this year. I did do a 100+ miler when it was around 90 degrees and I noticed my recovery was a bit longer than normal over the two days following that ride and the preceding week of miles that dug that hole. Chalk it up to old age!
Being that Mondays are my day off the bike I was nice and fresh for the TT bike today. Decided to do my short TT course (12 miles) which takes me on the edge of the busy part of town. That would be a bad chose, I think it was stupid driver day in Winchendon today. Temp was 75 degrees, with a 12-14 wind that I chose to go into at the start. I knew within the first mile that the legs were really strong, and it was on. At 3 miles in and before the turn around at mile 6 I got cut off 2 times, and almost plowed into the drivers side door of another car. That killed my momentum going into the headwind with the stop and go, but I did recovery a bit with no problems after the turn around. Finished off at 21.6mph thanks to the legs willing to work harder with the momentum changes.
The lady I almost plowed into pulled out in front of me without even looking my way, and never stopping at her stop sign. When she caught me in her view she hit the brakes coming to a stop 3/4 out into the road. I was aiming for her back end because by the time I got to where she would have been it would be gone. Once she stopped that didn't give me much of an out, I couldn't make that hard of a right. I was on my breaks hard and stopped less than a foot from her door. She then proceed to yell at me and tell me I should be riding on the sidewalk. So I politely told her to stop at stop signs, kiss my a** and have a great day.
Never a bad day !
The lady I almost plowed into pulled out in front of me without even looking my way, and never stopping at her stop sign. When she caught me in her view she hit the brakes coming to a stop 3/4 out into the road. I was aiming for her back end because by the time I got to where she would have been it would be gone. Once she stopped that didn't give me much of an out, I couldn't make that hard of a right. I was on my breaks hard and stopped less than a foot from her door. She then proceed to yell at me and tell me I should be riding on the sidewalk. So I politely told her to stop at stop signs, kiss my a** and have a great day.
Never a bad day !
I am much more polite. I would have told her to :*!$& my @#%^, *****!".
Just a quick 23 miles in 86 degree air and sunshine! It felt great and the climbing was only about 950'. The 9 to 13 MPH breeze felt good, head wind or tail. The Wilier ran silently and smoothly along the melting tar and I didn't even sweat a whole lot. I did ease up whenever I hit the couple of short, steep'ish spots on this course. It was just a relaxing ride with a couple of short bursts to wake the legs up.
No pain...lots to gain.
Zipp, I forgot to add:
My back has been on the edge of spaz'ing out for the last few days. Just about one ultra-tense panic stop while staring at some lesbian's Soobaroo bumper getting ever larger as I skidded to a halt would probably put it over the threshold...and cause me to say some not very nice things.
My back has been on the edge of spaz'ing out for the last few days. Just about one ultra-tense panic stop while staring at some lesbian's Soobaroo bumper getting ever larger as I skidded to a halt would probably put it over the threshold...and cause me to say some not very nice things.
Criterium style laps around your block or learning just how fast you can handle the twists and turns of a narrow cemetery road will get you those extra mile safely and build handling skills and sharpen your legs.
I got 53 in today, 3700 ft of climbing. Mid 70's but fought a moderate wind much of the time. I routed out a long out and back from my house, mostly country back roads. It was MY road. My bike is in the shop, so I had to use my 25 yr old bike, which works just fine and might be faster than my newer Allez, but the shifters are on the down tube and it doesn't have lower gears, which just about killed me on a short 13% grade hill at about mile 45. I got whooped by that hill and as a few miles clicked by i started worrying about the hills on the last 10 miles and decided to bail out. I called my wife, routed the last 5 miles to an easier mild downhill and had my wife pick me up a few hundred feet below where I started. Hope you don't think i'm a wussy!! 105 mi since Sunday, I'm on my way to a record week. (>155)
Good job, Glenn! The down tube shifters don't make much difference when compared to riding a modern road bike with integrated brake/shifters, but the increased number of gears and the lower gearing that is typical on a newer bike sure make the road easier.
Got out today on what I consider a late ride at 4:30pm. The temps have kept going down lately with today being 78 degrees, with an 8-10 wind. Legs just felt heavy at the start so I pushed as hard as I could until they decided to play right. Once the legs loosened up it turned out to be a good ride. A nice 23.69 miles at 18.3mph. I'm begging for the 90's and humidity to come back.
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