Black wallnut 

It is 1 October. Depending on where you live there might be lots of good riding weather or not. Get motivated, dress for the season and get out on your bike.

Once again my goal is to improve for Cyclocross so I'll be going for quality and will get quantity as a side benefit. Likely over 500 again.

mrodgers

Yup, it's 52° at 10 am. Shouldn't be any arm warmers needed yet

I can't control weather, darkness, or overtime, so since I'm at 903 for the year, I'm wanting 1000 total for the year. This will probably be my last month until spring. Thus, I'm putting out just a 100 mile goal. Last 2 months have been much better than summer, but I was able to ride at 5:30-6:00 after work some days. Not so much when it's dark. I don't mind the dark now and then and purposefully leave at dusk so I have to ride back in the dark with lights (on a rail trail.) My lights just don't last more than half an hour, so I can't ride starting out right after work when it's dark come the end of the month.

krobinson103

Good weather/bad weather I care not. I ride every day to work and at least once for a nice 130-200km ride in the weekend. Snow just slows me down. Cold weather? Wear more. As for lights? I have a good 4-5 hours of 1000 lumens or 10 hours of 400 lumens. Then I have a whole spare set of batteries.

Mindcrime

Looking forward to another great month ahead. Shooting for 425 miles on the month, getting it started tonight with a 12 mile ride planned, 17 tomorrow, and then a 52 mile hilly charity ride on Saturday.

Lets roll!

unabowler

Since I'm on my trainer a lot, a good way to express a target is 31 hours for the month of road riding or indoors for an average of an hour a day. I'd like to sneak in my second full century, and like the first one it will probably be solo.

ill.clyde

Hey @Black wallnut, can you put "October" in your thread title ... I almost over looked it!

Definitely enduring the change of seasons up here ... so yes, arm warmers, tights, shoe covers, etc ...

I'm shooting for 300 miles this month.

I've got 480 commute miles left before I hit 2K commute miles for the year, so I'm hoping to put a big dent into that number this month so I can pick and choose my riding days in November.

Willbird

I have been thinking on this one, first October for me, I do not have any arm warmers :-)...but I have a long sleeved LG thermal Jersey, and leg warmers, and shoe covers.

I did I think 300+ in June(First month riding in 20 years really), 500+ July, 500+ August, 400+ September....October has me stumped, guess I'll go for at least 300 and see where we end up :-).

Bill

IBOHUNT

Rule 9

rangerbill

I am going for 150 miles. That is down 50 miles from last months but I want to get in more running. I think I might like it.

Black wallnut 

Sorry ill.clyde I do not have the permissions needed to edit a thread title once it is posted. A moderator or admin would need to do that depending on the permissions mods have as set by the admin. I'll pm an admin and ask for that to be done.

ill.clyde

Hopefully they will

1loosemoose

Well I blew my 4th tire last weekend (yes I said 4th) and when I replaced it I bought a trainer tire so the road bike is firmly sitting in the trainer until spring. Fear not.......I also have a fitness bike for those days I just have to be outside and riding.
I'm going to shoot for 200 miles this month and hope I can get more than that.

linnefaulk

The weather hasn't changed yet. Mornings are still in the low 70s. But we get less daylight that those to the north.

I am going to aim for 320 miles this month.

breadbin

we're having freaky weather here in ireland. 19 degrees and sunny as hell! typically about 7 or 8

great for getting out on the bike

MikeRides

Looking at last year's ride log, I rode 163 miles last October, seeing how I'm now much more comfortable and even a bit faster on the bike than I was then, I'm going to shoot to double that (326 miles) and make it a point to ride at least 50 miles every weekend this month. As for the arm-warmers, I'm likely not going to need them until next month, as long as the temperature doesn't drop below 40 I'm perfectly comfortable in short sleeves.

mrodgers

That is freaky, man. We don't get anywhere close to freezing over here until January and here you are in Ireland 13 degrees below the freezing mark


I'm starting the month out right with a 14 mile ride and a face plant to the pavement. Surprised I still have my front teeth. Decided to mix it up with something different and drove out to the lake after work rather than ride the crushed limestone and roads near work. Very smooth paved trail, a lot of damp places that are covered with trees, no one around. I'm moving pretty good, came around a corner and there's about a 3 inch thick tree branch that fell on the trail. No big deal, I had plenty of time, hit the brakes, but the pavement is wet and the leaves are starting to scatter on the trail. Wham, I think I locked both brakes as both wheels flew out from under me like right now!

Slammed down on my hands, 1 knee, slid on my arm, and planted my mouth and chin straight into the pavement. Mouth is filled with blood and I can feel blood on the outside of my lip. Thought I put my teeth through my lip.

Not so bad. Just cut on the inside from my teeth, outside is just abraded along with a small abrasion on my chin. Knee has a scrape. Hands were protected by my gloves. Disappointing as those gloves were black suede palms, about 25 years old actually. I really liked the suede palms, backs were mesh and at the base of the thumb was like a terry cloth material to whip my brow on the hot days. They are finally done, ripped to shreds. Better than my palms being ripped to shreds. My lip is gigantic, but going down now. The worst abrasion is my left forearm which swelled like there was a golf ball under the skin. It's going down now too. Heck, it doesn't even hurt now.

Bike is fine. Left bar end twisted facing up and has road rash. It's also a bit bent inward, but no big deal. They're just $15 bar ends. I have metal pedals with clips and straps and the outside metal of the pedal is smashed in to the axis. Doesn't seem to be detrimental there. I think the bike just slid along on the bar end and the pedal. Nothing else is scraped up. Rode about 5 miles back to the car.

Worst part is, well, I'll admit, I chew snuff. I had regular cargo shorts on from work and a brand stinkin new can of snuff in my left pocket. It smashed to smithereens. That's the most painful injury, the bruise on my hip where my can of snuff got smashed between my hip and the pavement, LOL Everything is good though. My second fall now, first being just barely moving when I slipped on the wet wooden bridge on the other trail I ride. I want to say I went down about 13-14 mph this time as I had just came up a slight incline. I was pushing pretty good this ride kind of wanting to make a PB on the time of this trail. I was much more careful the final 5 miles which destroyed the chance of the PB.

10/1 - 14 miles with a 13 mph face-plant into the pavement

MTD - 14 miles
YTD - 917 miles

Black wallnut 

Starting the month with 22.3 miles on the cross bike mixed surfaces, mostly asphalt on busy city streets.

LGHT

I'm only in 13 miles so far and hoping to do a nice long ride tomorrow. I should be able to get to 100 miles since the weather is still the same (always sunny in California), but it's getting darker sooner so I may need to get another light!

bauhaus92

Considering it's going to be 96 degrees in San Diego this weekend i think i will leave the arm warmers at home.

ill.clyde

Thanks to the mod who updated the thread title!

10/2 - 24 miles

Total miles - 24 miles

Black wallnut 

10-2
3.2 miles running
34.9 miles on the bike.

breadbin

i'm only 9 miles in but heading out now for another 9! i'll make it to 100 slowly but surely this month. maybe even more!

1242Vintage

Started the month out with a CX race on Wednesday night (10/1) and a CX skills workout on 10/2 for a total of 23 miles.

Rest day today (friday) and racing an omnium this weekend with CX races in Reno and Truckee on Saturday and Sunday.

Picture is in the "feed zone" AKA Beer handup area on Wednesday night.

Null66

10.8 with 302 to go.

Yendor72

I was out of town on a business trip this week, got home last night. Now it is supposed to rain/snow mix today, raining now. I really want to ride, but I don't quite have the gear to pull that off yet. Cold I don't mind, wet, not ready for, snow, I will sit on the trainer. Gonna have to get another Adamo seat for the trainer I suppose.