Machka 

This weekend is Australia Day weekend, some will have Friday off, some will have Monday off, and some are taking a full week or so before the kids go back to school.

With that in mind, what kind of activity have you been up to this weekend? Are you on a cycling tour? Are you riding around your neighbourhood? Are you cycling inside? Or are you doing something else all together?



Friday and Saturday - Rowan and spent both days walking and swimming. Swimming in the ocean. The water here is beautiful ... very salty, so we float easily, and as clear as can be with beautiful white sand. It is also quite warm, both the outside temperature and the ocean temperature.

So we've spent at least an hour each day in the water.


And yesterday, just before we got in for a swim, the swimming area had a special guest ... a large stingray!! I've never seen one in the wild before. We waited till it was gone before we got in, and kept an eye open for it today.

alexaschwanden

I did 61.1 miles on Friday from palo alto to San Mateo and back, I also had a rear tire blow out but I fixed it and continued.

Machka 

Sunday - about 4 km walk, and a bit of a swim. Rowan swam more than me as usual.

jbchybridrider 

I went to the final stage of the Tour Down Under today "Sunday" and used Peugeot Hurricane for traversing the circuit for photos. I was my first ride nearly 4 months since an op.
For the record stage 6 was won by Andre Greiple. Tom Slagter won the tour outright from Javier Moreno and Geraint Thomas.





Andy Schleck having problems!




Behind the scene in commentary.

John_V 

Australia seems to be having Florida weather. Some friends of mine and I did a nice 26 mile ride yesterday and rode to the beach and the canals around Tampa Bay. Sorry, no photos to add but the weather was in the mid 70's, nice and sunny and very little wind.

Machka 

Australia is having summer right now.

Today got to about 30C under bright sunshine in Western Australia.

MarkThailand

Well, the cool spell in Bangkok has ended but it is still windy.

Saturday - I rode my usual training loop solo and nonstop around Souvarnabhumi airport. It was quite windy but at least it was straight headwind and tailwind. Riding into the wind, I managed a slow 22 kmh deep in the drops trying to be as aero as possible but rode at 37 kmh with the wind, with peaks of over 40 kmh, on the hoods. I finished my 100 km in 3 hr 30 min. Btw, it was 79 F at 715 am when I started and 92 F at 11 am when I finished,

Sunday - I woke up to find a steady drizzle - and my brother told me that it was a steady rain plus wind at our loop so I stayed home. I set up my bike with the SRAM Quarq PM on the Lemond trainer and used the opportunity to figure it out. My first attempt at figuring out my FTP was 179 watts - apparently I did not go all out or I am quite weak. Well, that is okay. In another thread, I already said that I was at peace with being average to below average on a lot of things in life - no artistic talent, not a millionaire, not a Mensa society person, not a Cat racer wannabe, not handsome, etc., etc.

But, this month I rode about 700 km (over seven total riding days) - a record for me.

Mark

Machka 

Congrats!

StephenH

Rode a 300k perm yesterday. Went pretty well until the last 30 miles, it was foggy, the fog collects on my glasses, not good. But we finished it out.
This afternoon, I made the first run of my Palmer Romp 110k perm. Got lost once and got 6 bonus miles out of it, but still made the controls on time.
And made it past 1,000 miles for January.

woodcraft

Group ride Saturday. 65 miles, 5,000' climbing, about 15.5 mph ave. Windy, cool, very clear and pretty.

Murphy's law of headwinds did not apply for once, as the tailwinds in fact equaled if not exceeded the headwinds!

Machka 

Holiday Monday - 28.93 km on a bicycle path along the ocean in Western Australia on a hot and sunny afternoon.

Plus 400 metres in the campground swimming pool earlier in the day.

JonnyHK 

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/266890414

Very sore and tired today!

Chris Pringle

Rode 104 Km on Saturday. Nice overall temps, too - 70f to 75f (21-23c) through the entire ride. Felt good yesterday. Will try to squeeze in a short ride today.

John_V 

45 miles at my local MUP on Sunday. Intended on riding my usual 30, but ran into a riding buddy at the end of the 30 miles. Since it was such a gorgeous day, I did the extra 15 miles with him.

Carbonfiberboy 

We did the SIR Winter Training Series ride on our tandem on Saturday. 70 miles in continuous rain at a steady 37°. That was not the forecast, oh well. One of the most difficult rides I've done, weather-wise. We both got cold hands. We're fine in the rain down to about 42° and fine in showers down to 35°, but the steady cold rain was beyond my experience. Except for our hands, our clothing was fine though. 25 equally stupid people started the ride with us. We don't call it the Dark Side for nothing.

We have had almost 3 weeks of steady freezing fog here, with black ice, so this was our first outdoor ride in 3 weeks. The good news is that cross-training does work. We finished strong.

caloso

1st road race of the year: CalAggie Crit. Literally 1 mile from my house so I have a difficult time saying no to racing. Seems like every year, the NorCal masters peleton shows up for this race in ridiculously fit and fast condition.