Birthday Ride Report
 

Ya'll missed a fun time!

We headed out right at about 10am from Steady Eddy's. It was pretty chilly this morning. We were not warm. That said, we rode out to Pleasants Valley and over to Cantelow. We rode right up the West side without any trouble. My wife said it wasn't any trouble at all. :thumb: Got to the top and we were nice and toasty. Climbing seems to do that.

Down the hill and chilly again. Ugh. Then back to Winters for lunch. We hung out for a little while to warm up and hoping that the sun would come out.

We started off a little before 1. Feeling even colder than the morning. Thankfully we stuck with it, before we got to the end of Winters Rd, the sun was starting to peek out and it felt really good. It was a quick jaunt back over to Cantelow Rd and then the climb up. Got to the top with jacket open and jersey half unzipped. Bundled back up again before heading back down the hill for the return to Winters where we got some hot chocolate before heading home.

We had a fun time. We have also decided that the East side of Cantelow is the harder of the 2 sides to climb. It's much easier to go up the West side where a good rhythm can be developed on the ascent rather than the irregular climbing on the East side.

Incidentally, climbing the West side, my HR never got above 163. Climbing the East side, my HR got up to 173. That ought to be someone indicative of something I suppose. Last time up the West side, I think my HR got close to 190. So I'm in much better shape!

Congrats - sounds like a nice ride. Do you have any stats on Cantelow for us out of towners to appreciate?

Beaker, here ya go:
http://www.jspublications.net/images/bikes/cantelow.jpg

Nice, glad to hear you had a good ride.

And of course, happy birthday!!! :bday: :beer:

Indeed, happy birthday! Especially nice to spend it riding with your wife.

So now I have to get out there for one of your rides...and Happy birthday sorry we all couldn't be out there with you...YOu know you have to get down here for a ride to !

Maybe we'll do a city ride?
BF ride for lunch in the park.:bday:

Well, happy birthday Joel. Sorry I missed it, but riding time has been shortened by the cursed holidays. Yesterday was a weird day weatherwise wasn't it? I went out for a delta neighborhood ride between 1-3pm and that was by far the coldest point of the entire day. Later (9pm) I went out in front of my house for about an hour to rearrange lights and it was several degrees warmer than the afternoon. Today we have this misty sprinkly stuff to actually warm us up. Just need to remember... MORE LAYERS!!!
Anyways. We'll have to hook up and ride one of these days... Looks like January at the earliest however.

Taxi, I'll get out there at some point.