TrentonMakes Posted July 17, 2021 Share #1251 Posted July 17, 2021 13 miles, 92 degrees, heat index 100. Chased home early due to thunder but i might have packed it in from that point anyway. I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable cycling on a hot day. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted July 17, 2021 Share #1252 Posted July 17, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted July 17, 2021 Share #1253 Posted July 17, 2021 19 miles, easy spin. Last 8 in the rain, but it was nice to cool off from the 90 degrees that was there before the rain. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted July 17, 2021 Share #1254 Posted July 17, 2021 Looks like I forgot to post my thurs ride. 28 rolly miles on the road. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted July 18, 2021 Share #1255 Posted July 18, 2021 Ran 2 miles with about 1/2 mile walk/warm up before & 1/2 Mike walk/cool down after so 3 total. Still running pain free! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted July 18, 2021 Share #1256 Posted July 18, 2021 thur 19 sat 29 & ran 3.2 sun 40 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 18, 2021 Popular Post Share #1257 Posted July 18, 2021 Today's forecast said the least rainy parts of today would be mid-morning to early afternoon. Started out in a light mist, changed to light showers, stopped, rinse and repeat. Thankfully no heavy downpours. A section of the Erie Canalway Trail just opened this year: Since the trail parallels the Erie Canal I suppose 'Low Bridge! Everybody down! is appropriate. Overcast the entire ride, which in a way was great as the temperature's stayed in the 70's. At this point the rain was a steady light shower, but I only melted a little bit. It rained a fair amount over the past week, so the Mohawk River was higher and muddier than usual. The small bits of white far upriver where the banks close in are the next Barge Canal lock and moveable dam. This building was built about 1850 to serve as a warehouse for Erie canal boats and ferries crossing the Mohawk. Often when the canal work was done the stone masons who built the locks and other canal structures would hire themselves out to build houses or buildings. I'm not sure if it's the case with this building, but the like many of the locks, the stonework has remained straight and true over the last ~170 years. With the weather I expected to see very few people on the Trail. Surprisingly there were almost as many people out today as there would have been on a sunny day. 60.4 miles 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 18, 2021 Share #1258 Posted July 18, 2021 40 on the road. Humid and breezy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted July 18, 2021 Share #1259 Posted July 18, 2021 Hiked 1.5 miles in the Smokies. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted July 19, 2021 Share #1260 Posted July 19, 2021 19 miles today on the KHS. Much better weather today, legs felt good. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Share #1261 Posted July 19, 2021 3.6 miles walking with WoJSTL in Pigeon Forge TN. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dinneR ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Popular Post Share #1262 Posted July 19, 2021 Five hour mtb ride on Sat. Pathway food tour on Sunday. The food was delicious. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted July 20, 2021 Share #1263 Posted July 20, 2021 We went out to do a quick 15 mile ride after work. 10 miles in i hit something in the road and flatted. Changed the tube and as i wad putting the wheel back on my bike, Bam! It blows again. Then i noticed the huge gash through the sidewall. As we were only a few miles from home Gumpette rode home and got the truck. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post petitepedal ★ Posted July 20, 2021 Popular Post Share #1264 Posted July 20, 2021 3 miles in 54 minutes...in the hood.. 88 degrees 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post az_cyclist Posted July 20, 2021 Popular Post Share #1265 Posted July 20, 2021 7/19/21. Monday morning ride with my son, 50 miles 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 20, 2021 Share #1266 Posted July 20, 2021 6 on the commute 3.1 I the kayak 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted July 20, 2021 Share #1267 Posted July 20, 2021 3 times around Central Park, 19 miles of easy cruising. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jdc2000 Posted July 20, 2021 Popular Post Share #1268 Posted July 20, 2021 28 miles, 83 degrees, 5-10 mph winds, overcast. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldendesign Posted July 20, 2021 Share #1269 Posted July 20, 2021 6.32 miles in neighborhood First ride back after the wreck. No gloves since the thumb has a janky nail still semi attached to the new fresh thumb meat and the zombie part. Was a bit unsettled and the bike felt hyper responsive. Probably just me. Gonna have to tell the LBS owner the new mechanic did good on the majors but missed on the minors. Front brake was overly adjusted and rubbed and clicked when I first took her out the garage. That is not a noise you want to hear on a bike that had fairly harsh front end trauma. Index on the right shifter was off a bit, probably just stretching of the new cables. The excess cable end on the FD was bent outwards so my leg rubbed on it. Never readjusted the seat height after servicing it. Spent probably as much time in the garage adjusting things as I did on the ride but it was good nonetheless. Still gonna take at least two more tries to get my seat post back to where I thought it should go. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post az_cyclist Posted July 20, 2021 Popular Post Share #1270 Posted July 20, 2021 7/20/21. Solo Tuesday ride 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 20, 2021 Share #1271 Posted July 20, 2021 Heading on holidays tomorrow, so need to update my totals from the last couple weeks 185.5 miles 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1272 Posted July 21, 2021 1 hour ago, az_cyclist said: 7/20/21. Solo Tuesday ride How far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1273 Posted July 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Zephyr said: How far? We're talkin' AZ, here, on a solo ride. So add up everything everybody else did last week, multiply by cubic feet per minute of DH's vent fan, plus the square root of your age to the fourth power. And you'll still be short about 50 miles. For his morning ride. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1274 Posted July 21, 2021 On 7/20/2021 at 8:05 PM, Zephyr said: How far? 27 miles 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1275 Posted July 21, 2021 2 hours ago, az_cyclist said: 7/20/21. Solo Tuesday ride 27 miles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1276 Posted July 21, 2021 6 on the commute 25.5 on the group ride 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1277 Posted July 21, 2021 After the dog walk, I rode the I&M Canal today. Went east out of town. It was warm and getting warmer. I also wanted to at least get a good start on mowing our grass before it got close to 88F today. My plan was for 20 miles. The next town to the east is Marseilles 6 1/2 miles to the east. I haven't ridden past Marseilles in several years. Most of the limestone is now grown over. It looks like this... a real long and straight single track in most places. Until I got to a 1/8 mile section that was muddy and swampy... Even on my MTB I was sliding in the ruts like I was on grease, but I made it thru the swamp. I kept going east. I figured. 2 more miles for a total of 24... so I kept riding. Soon I found the trail is shared with a farmer's really looooong drive way. They didn't use limestone, they use rock. The kind that has sharp edges. I was worried about a flat. And I was now behind my scheduled turn around time, so I turned around after about 1/2 a mile of rock.. that was not going to end anytime soon. There is a blacktop country road that parallels the I&M Canal, so I road that for a while to buy pass the swamp on the return trip. Sure enough... my front tire seemed really unstable, so I stopped, and yep... I had a slow leaking flat, I only found a old tire patch on the tube that appeared to be falling off and no other leaks. So I replaced the patch and stated to add air. Then I finally noticed... OMG I'm sitting on the side of the road, right next to and / partially on poison ivy. I get back on the bike and start riding again... Like how can this possibly get worse... It did... the slow leak was still leaking. So rather than replacing the tube and getting even more behind schedule... I just added air again, and again, and again. The trail was loaded with mosquitoes Stopping to add air was like giving blood. Tomorrow I'll see if I can figure out where the leak is in the tube. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1278 Posted July 21, 2021 13 miles of intervals last night. Ok, maybe 7 miles of intervals after a warm up. I was totally blown after, granny gear the last mile home was all I could manage. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldendesign Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1279 Posted July 21, 2021 6 miles Same route, I knew riding around my neighborhood, not leaving outside the gates, was long but not 6 miles long. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 12string Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share #1280 Posted July 21, 2021 Woot woot! gym and locker rooms at work are open! That means 2 10 mile commutes so far this week. And I'm heading to the gym now to throw some (small) weights around! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted July 21, 2021 Share #1281 Posted July 21, 2021 7/21/21. 36 miles this morning, with my son and a friend of his (the friend for about 24 miles). After the friend peeled off my so. Asked if I wanted to go to Caribou. I said I had coffee at the apartment (he doesn’t drink coffee) so let’s just ride more and go for 30, so we did . He even suggested a road with a stretch of gravel . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jdc2000 Posted July 22, 2021 Popular Post Share #1282 Posted July 22, 2021 32 miles, 87-83 degrees, 5-8 mph winds, smoky 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 22, 2021 Popular Post Share #1283 Posted July 22, 2021 Rode some trails on the fat bike in a local preserve. These trails are so tame any true mountain cyclist like DenniS or DH would fall into a coma from boredom within 50 feet. These were sections of the preserve I hadn't ridden before, as rumor had it there was glass scattered throughout those sections. The rumors were true. Not sure how the glass got there, but I think there may have been informal 'dumps' scattered throughout the area before it became a preserve. There was enough glass at several points on the trail that I'd be hesitant to go back. But once in, I figured just make the most of it anyway. The good part was I saw very few people in these sections, whereas the other sections of the preserve can get a bit busy. Typical views along the trail: This tree was easily three feet in diameter. About 7.5 miles. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 22, 2021 Share #1284 Posted July 22, 2021 6 on the commute 28 on a group ride. The Hastings cycling group about 20 miles south of us started from the home of a rider who lives halfway between the 2 cities. Several from our city joined them. We did a loop of paved county roads that ended back at Mike’s home. They grilled burgers. We shared side dishes and beverages and had a great time visiting around the bonfire. Too bad it was a school night. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted July 22, 2021 Share #1285 Posted July 22, 2021 Got in 3/4 mile in the pool, and a lunchtime weight workout. Another dinner out tonight to undo it all 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted July 22, 2021 Popular Post Share #1286 Posted July 22, 2021 Eight and a half miles around the hood. Got good report from my cardiologist today. She said ride your bike. Here is a picture of a washout a half mile from my house. Good thing I have a gravel bike. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted July 23, 2021 Share #1287 Posted July 23, 2021 Trainer session tonight..1/2 mile on the treadmill..went to 3.8 in speed and a 112 heart rate..in 9 minutes...then I had my 1 hour session..he continued to be careful with my shoulder...but takes no prisoners when it comes to my legs or my abs 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 23, 2021 Share #1288 Posted July 23, 2021 6 on the commute 23.5 on the casual ride. Rode the commuter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted July 23, 2021 Share #1289 Posted July 23, 2021 13 miles of intervals yesterday. It was nice outside, overcast and 80 when I rode. Perfect cycling temperature for me! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted July 23, 2021 Share #1290 Posted July 23, 2021 10 mile commute today, the morning weather was perfect! And no smoke finally! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dinneR ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Popular Post Share #1291 Posted July 24, 2021 Evening ride. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1292 Posted July 24, 2021 6 on the commute. Ride home was in the 90s. Heat index of 99. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1293 Posted July 24, 2021 7/23/21. 51 miles with my son and one of his friends. They are pushing the pace! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1294 Posted July 24, 2021 Another 13 miles in the park yesterday. I only yelled at one person, so it was a good day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1295 Posted July 24, 2021 27 today (sat), and 77 for the previous 5 days. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1296 Posted July 24, 2021 Saturday morning ride, 30 miles. Same route as last Saturday but rode in the opposite direction 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dinneR ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Popular Post Share #1297 Posted July 24, 2021 5.5 hour mtb ride. I took a nap under a tree for a while. The wildflowers are going crazy. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1298 Posted July 24, 2021 Jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1299 Posted July 24, 2021 Envious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 25, 2021 Share #1300 Posted July 25, 2021 6 on the commute 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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