What No weekend ride reports

[-Dustin]

Day 4 of Tour of Austin (1 TT, 1 circuit, 2 crits). Skipped day one, had my front wheel taken out on day 2, and had a flat on day 3. Day 4 is an hour away, and it's drizzling heavily. Might just skip it.

And I flatted today. Sweet. Doubled my flat total for the year.

[TJ]

And I flatted today. Sweet. Doubled my flat total for the year.

It's the wheels ;)

[Rico]

1000K in wonderful North Carolina.

[Disturbed]

1000K in wonderful North Carolina.

600 miles.....IMPRESSIVE!

[John M]

My shortest race ever.

My cross race ended very quickly today at the Seattle Labor Day season opener. I suffered a broken chain about 3/4 of the way through the first lap. It was on a short but steep upslope on one of the singletrack type sections of the course, so I was on full gas at the time. I don't think I was shifting at the time, so perhaps a stick got wedged in there or something and locked it up. The guy behind me yelled, "your chains off!", and suddenly was spinning on the pedals with no torque.

[1centaur]

After a drought, record heat and humidity most of the summer, Labor Day Weekend in New England felt like why people pay the big bucks to live in California. High 70s, a bit breezy ex-hurricane, but dry, mostly sunny, awesome. 53/54/56 miles Sat/Sun/Mon; Z5/Crumpton SL2/SL1 (my designations, not Nick's) in that order. All excellent rides, reasonably fast and got home fresh. Today especially was a top 5 of the year ride. This is what I'll be missing the most when I hit the trainer this winter.

[Rico]

600 miles.....IMPRESSIVE!

Thanks.

[AntLockyer]

1000K in wonderful North Carolina.

I'm going to read the ride report on RTP later.

[Tom]

Sat: 35 mile cruise before acquiring, loading, unloading and placing what is to my estimation 3/4 ton of granite block to finish the last garden border across the front of the house and down the side. Looks awesome, considering it encloses what was a big dead spot under the maple and spruces in front and now is cleaned up with the obligatory fall mums in pots. Next spring it gets planted, probably hostas or something.
Sun: 40 miles up the hill to the right of the river and into a decent west wind then home at 30+ with the wind chasing me down the valley.
Mon: 80 miles up to Desolation, back south and then up the hill to the left of the river. Tailwind had me hit 50 on the Crawford descent without trying. Saw a guy riding with a metal post where his left calf should have been. Gives one perspective. Generally spent from the moment I started and ended up going pretty slow, which is a cause for minor concern because I signed up for the baby ride at the ADK 540... one loop on Friday. The plan is not to compete, but to experience the whole deal and come back next year for maybe two loops.

[WayneJ]

3 Days of hammering the Kingdom Trails of East Burke, VT with some buds
Saw some of SteveP's CCB mafia - but no poochie.

[SteveP]

3 Days of hammering the Kingdom Trails of East Burke, VT with some buds
Saw some of SteveP's CCB mafia - but no poochie.

they are everywhere. did they collect the requisite fees?

[DarrenCT]

saturday - all day at the us open

sunday - 16miles at a snails pace because ive been partying too much

gotta get back in the game

[velobran]

~50 miles on Sun and Mon. Sun, I was on the gas the whole time. Mon, I was dead at mile 30. Starting visiting a PT to see if I can get my other body parts back into shape. Its killed my odd muscles in my legs.

[Scott]

Rode 5 hours at Snowshoe, WV on the Spot, wife was on her Felt Breed CX. Slow going, but we had a wonderful time- weather was perfect and the views were great. Climbing the fire tower scared the crap out of us, but the view from the top was worth it!

[nahtnoj]

Did 3hrs on Saturday and 6.5 on Sunday. Watched baseball and worked on the kitchen on Monday. Weather was an amazing improvement over the usually humidity and thunderstorms of Mid-Atlantic Labor Day weekends.

[-Dustin]

It's the wheels ;)

I'm blaming the tires. 3 of my flats have been on GP Triathlons since the first day of RAGBRAI.

The other was a sidewall cut on an Open Corsa in June.

[davids]

Fewer weekend miles than I'd hoped, but they were good.

Saturday: Like a lot of my pals, I assumed the big, bad hurricane was going to make Saturday problematic. So I planned no ride and, even when the day dawned beautiful, I just didn't ride. Ended up doing a lot of chores around the house including a once-every-20-or-so-years basement vacuuming. I probably removed 50 pounds of dust and debris from the floor. My bikes have a cleaner home now.

Sunday: A fast ride with a bunch of guys I don't see much. But shorter than I'd expected, somewhat under 3 hours. I was hoping for another hour but didn't want to leave my friends. The day was gorgeous and the riding superb.

Monday: My wife managed to cancel her hospital shift and wanted to go riding. How could I say no to a ride with my wife and daughter, especially since it was the first time the three of us had ridden together in over a year? Less than 20 slow miles along the south shore. But another gorgeous day and the company couldn't have been better.

Today: We're rapidly losing morning daylight so these pre-work rides will be coming to an end for the year in a matter of weeks. So I savored today's ride through the Blue Hills, knowing that months of early mornings on the trainer are not far away.

[hmbatrail]

Wednesday rode out to Frenchtown via Big Flat Rd. (which is neither big nor flat).



Thursday did some riding up around Flathead Lake



Friday did 150 miles on the KLR. Rode down into ID, up and over Lolo Pass, into the hot springs, over the river and through the woods. Beers and burgers at the Lumberjack.




Saturday hiked the M and then watched the Griz beat the ever loving dogshit out of Western College.


Then proceeded to get very very drunk and splashed around in a very cold Clark Fork River. Pics withheld to protect dignity.

[EddieBirdsell]

I've had this frame for almost a year now and I can't believe it took me this long to finally get it put together. With time being short, bike riding usually won out to bike building.

A temporary build as it presently sits. 2.5 hours on Sat. around Princeton, NJ, and a couple more hours last night banging around Morristown, Mendham, and Jockey Hollow. The stem/seatpost mismatch drives me nuts, but I'm waiting on Thomson to come out with a small run of 30.6mm seatposts.

[Uncle Jam's Army]

Did 70 miles yesterday in Orange County, through O'Neill Park, Live Oak Canyon, Santiago Canyon, then up to Anaheim Hills, then back home on the Santa Ana River Trail. Luckily the weather was much more comfortable yesterday, as opposed to the heat-fest on Saturday, and the feet didn't swell up.