bikingshearer 

What bigbossman said. We did the 65 miler, which ended up being a 70 miler, but the main pint was we did not do the 100 miler, which would have added Mt. Veeder to the mix. But it was a lovely day.

gpelpel

What happened? Too many vineries along the way?


Here you go! Sounds like you also visited some local breweries.

bikingshearer 

^^^ You found us out!!

danec99

I rode the 100 mile at Crater Lake On Saturday and then dashed back to Napa for the Tour of Napa Valley (didn't realize they were on the same weekend until much later.) I was signed up for the 100 but didn't want to get up, arrived a little late and so I did the 65. Wow, what a difference. 250 or so on Saturday and 3000 on Sunday. I felt really good on the Napa ride, need to do longer rides before long rides more often! And Ink Grade did not kill me (last time I was there I foolishly tried Howell Mtn, Ink Grade is MUCH nicer.)

cccorlew

Volunteer ride for Marin Century workers with LanceOldStrong.
Check the video on my blogpost to se what wind looks like. YIKES.

https://ccorlew.blogspot.com/2010/08/...teer-ride.html

Ygduf

Looks like Patterson Pass winds!

spingineer

Was on call all weekend. But what kinda sucked was I only got one call all weekend, and that was all done by Saturday morning at 9 am. I guess I should be careful what I wish for. I was able to get in a short evening ride out to Mt. Eden, and got my personal best. Maybe it's because it was short, and I was extremely well rested?

JoelS

Checked out some of the roads up past Auburn and into Colfax. Beautiful scenery, some good hills, lots of rollers. Nothing particularly difficult though.

Beaker

Did the House of Pain (lite) ride again - a good BF turnout too (six in all). I'm starting to like this ride quite a bit - it's a good pace, social enough in between bouts of suffering and time efficient (50miles, 18-19mph pace with only a couple of brief stops).

This week was a bit odd, the ride was really crawling along at a slow pace out along Tassajara, couple of guys went down early on in the front part of the pack (a pinecone got the blame), and I found myself with 3 or 4 other guys pushing the pace up a bit; but as soon as we turned left on Highland the green light went on and the hammer goes down. Brutal winds yesterday on the way to and from Livermore - really needed to echelon down N Livermore Ave, but not everyone was playing ball. The pace was good on the middle section, riding 25+ along Kitty Hawk, then with no break it was on to Collier. Wind was as bad as expected, and what was left of the pack pretty much got splintered into singletons and groups of no more than 3 or 4 riders. Enjoyed some great pacelining with a couple of Taleo and a BBC guy on the way back home though. Got a good work out again, trying to hang with the leading group (or what was left of it). This and GPC tuesdays are doing good things for the average level of intensity in my regular riding.

obiwan kenobi

One of our club members puts on the "melon ride" each year. Had over 55 riders turn out for today's slug fest. Great ride that started in Manteca, headed north then east and eventually back to the start. Had a couple of riders go down but everyone was in one piece at the end of the day. Approximately 52 miles with a average speed of 20.6 mph.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/46738886

Tim Aiken

90 miles, 7000 feet of climbing, one tired cycler https://www.mapmyride.com/route/us/ca...28314161017587 =)

bigbossman 

Only 40 miles and about 1300 feet of climbing today, in and around San Ramon, Dublin, Alamo, and a little bit of Walnut Creek. Just test riding the new sled.

bigbossman 

Don't exaggerate - you only did 89.57 miles, and you took the easy way by bypassing China Grade and Jameson Creek.

Tim Aiken

I know, I know, 90 sounds more impressive though considering my pace by the end I think that was the right choice, my thighs are still dying =)

UmneyDurak

Rode in hour glass type thing. I guess it's even kooler then riding in circles, well big loops to be more accurate. It hurt sooo, well it just hurt a lot. lol.

gpelpel

Finally put my b... on the saddle this weekend. I had been off the bike since the Corlew Diablo climb.
Thursday was a short hill repeat in the neighborhood (7 miles and 1000'), Saturday was a more ambitious 33 miles with 3,700' of climbing. Started with Acalanes, then to Rheem, Pinehurst where I joined a Chevron group for the climb, Grizzly Peak, down Wildcat, and up again on Papa Bear, Happy Valley, and Los Arabis.
I think the Chevron group was riding in an organized MS ride.

danec99

Got my first taste of Saratoga Gap this weekend, 2000' of climbing in 10 miles, going back on Labor Day for a longer session.

Ygduf

Long weekend for me. Climbed: Soda Springs, Montevina, Black Rd., Gist Rd., Eric's Driveway, (then on Sunday) OLH, Stage, Haskins, and W. Alpine.

Saw some stars and thought I might die on W. Alpine after going WAY too hard at the bottom.

Aylwin

Saturday: Kings Mtn Road and Tunitas Creek
https://www.strava.com/rides/169774

Sunday: Nicasio and towards Petaluma.
https://www.strava.com/rides/170567

silentben

Spent the weekend camping on the Yuba River up by Grass Valley. I've gone up here for 3 out of the last 4 summers but it was about 20 degrees colder than usual. It was cloudy all day Saturday and sprinkled that night. The sun finally came out on Sunday (how appropriate) and I got a 5 minute swim in the river.

On the way home we stopped in downtown Auburn to try and find a lunch but just about everywhere was closed. So I stopped in Victory Velo to ask for a recommendation since I new I could trust fellow cyclists to tell me where to get good food Ended up at Katrina's for a superb quiche and enormous berry cobbler.

I managed to get all of 59.1 weekend miles in August (but 434 weekday miles so far!)

BenRidin

Yep, this was a fun ride. A little jostling in the front pack with all the racer boys going at it.
Good to see out there O Bee One.

BR

bikingshearer 

Camping with the wife's family a Calaveras Big Trees. The high point was listening to a half-hour scream fight starting at 7:15 between the five-year-old niece and her mother. Boy, were we popular in teh campground.

I did sneak in a ride on Highway 4 from Big Trees to Lake Alpine (just past the road to Bear Valley ski resort). 26 miles. almost entirely uphill. 3400 feet worth.


"New sled"? Do tell . . . .

bigbossman 

Tuesday and Wednesday, it was 100+. Thursday and Friday, it was high 90's. Today - high 80's to low 90's. So, with a break in the heat we took a little spin out toward Livermore and back. When it was all said and done, we racked up ~80 miles and~3700 feet of climbing. It was a great day to be out, with some great folks. A little warm and a little windy, but a lot of fun nevertheless.

Pics, in no particualr order:

platypus

I rode from San Jose up to Mountain View to have lunch with a buddy, and then back down to San Jose. It was nice actually getting on the bike again. I haven't gotten to do much riding lately!

Tim Aiken

alto velo B ride, the coastal classic. maybe im just extra slow and not in shape but my legs are still hurting