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Your Winter Solstice ride

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Old 12-21-09, 10:42 AM
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Your Winter Solstice ride

Mine: 34 miles, 14 mile commute, 20 mile lunchtime ride. Nice day in Colorado. Snow has melted, roads are clear.
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I am doing a short lunch ride. Recovery actually because I did a long ride yesterday. Probably 16 miles if that. I was going to post a winter solstice thread. Time to celebrate as the days get longer tomorrow, but the snowstorms are going to be worse till March .
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heading out for a lunchtime ride round Cherry Creek Res....
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Originally Posted by logdrum
I am doing a short lunch ride. Recovery actually because I did a long ride yesterday. Probably 16 miles if that. I was going to post a winter solstice thread. Time to celebrate as the days get longer tomorrow, but the snowstorms are going to be worse till March .
No way. We're almost over the worst of it. In Northern New Mexico we get a good storm or two in Nov/Dec. Then another one or two in January. Then it dries out and we get superb riding most of February. Then a quick storm hits in March, then dries out for a few weeks. More great riding. Then another storm in April. Quickly dries out. Then there's usually another one in May just to mess with us.

Great thing is, after each storm the roads melt in just a day or two. Smooth sailing for a couple weeks until another one comes along. I love this area.
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Hey palesaint,

I guess I was speaking for the more snowbound places like the Great Lake states. It does snow in Los Alamos and Jemez and Los Alamos in April but melts after a couple of hours. Snow nontheless


We have to hook up. I did idiotically climb 3 miles of the unpaved section of 165 yesterday and it is still covered in ice or snow. Do you know this guy Dave or something who lives between Jemez and Bandelier. I see him climbing Route 4 all the time even with sketchy ice patches and R-Sys Wheels.
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I don't think I rode my bicycle on June 21st. I suspect it was too rainy.
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-11C snowy and realllly icy. I was heading down a short steep hill on my way in the morning and thought "hey I should take it easy." Then I noticed two sets of tire tracks head down so I thought "hey it might not be so bad" 3 seconds later I was picking my arse off the ice. After I walked about 1/2 down the hill I noticed one set of tracks ending in a massive bail out/skid down the rest of the path and the other set of tracks a few feet further on ended up in what looked to be a massive bail with a corsponding sliding right off the path into the gully.

Reallly slippery.
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Cloudy, calm, 60 degrees. Brisk 28 mile out-and-back.
Hello, winter!
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12 miles so far. pouring rain. dropped my blinky along the way. 9 miles to come for lunchtime, then 3 miles back home around 6:30. Hoping for a break in the rain for the lunch ride.

The radar's looking hopeful and I see blue sky to the west!

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Old 12-21-09, 04:04 PM
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Just a 13.5 mile recovery ride today after a big weekend of riding. Tomorrows gonna be 3 hours, wed 4 hours, thursday 3 hours...quite excited for the slightly warmer weather coming to FL.
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It's 71 degrees and sunny in Houston, TX. I wish we had some cold weather here.
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Heading out for a ride around the neighborhood to look at the lights
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Nothing, I had to go teach karate at the gym, and a ton of cardio doesn't help my bulking up plan.

Probably riding tomorrow, downtown and around, maybe get some coffee with some people.
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Sick. No ride. It was almost 60F today.
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I managed to complete my normal 50 miler along Deer Creek Canyon Road, up to the Pleasant Park School and back home. Lots of climbing and it was cold in the mountains. This time of year, there's not much sun on those canyon roads.

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hour and fifteen minute ride before sundown on my fixed.
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Hmm, I will have to wait 6 months for the winter solstice ride report. No summer solstice report, trying my first metric century tmrw though
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2x20 on the rollers.. too wet and slick outside for me.
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worked from 0600 to 2245. Had a nice ride planned, but that didn't work.
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Only rode 21 miles. Roads were wet, temp was 29F and overcast. OK, I'm a wuss.
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