Monday -- little bits and pieces of walking here and there until I got tired. But at least I'm venturing out a bit. One day I'll ride again.

After 10 years of only getting to "climb" some large drawbridges in South Florida I went to Virginia for my daughter's high school graduation... and took the bike to ride on some hills that I haven't been on in a long time. If anyone remembers the old Tour DuPont from the early 90's these 2 climbs were the featured climbs of the mountain time trial. If you invert the KOM standings, I'm on top LOL

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100.5 Miles Saturday in the Bike MS Ride the Riverside.

no riding sunday as my ass was tired

34 on Friday, 34 on Sunday. Same route. Very hilly. It was hot on Sunday and I needed to ride in the heat of the day to get back in time to watch the NBA game... felt great aerobically but it was too hot to push hard.

117.5 Saturday on the tandem. Group ride, the Portland-Vernonia loop; maybe 5000'. The group got numbers all over the place for that. Perfect day for this ride, mostly sunny, not too hot. We got a little tired on the Vernonia Pass climb, but recovered with DQ cones enough to do 24-27 on the Hwy 30 flats into Portland. We love tailwinds. We were riding with another tandem and 4 singles. the tandems beat the singles on every section. We climb slower, but more than make it up on the descents and flats if it's not too hilly.

We hadn't spent much time in Portland before. Very nice city.

75k in the Palo Alto Tour de Cure. Nice ride, went fairly slow to enjoy the ride with a friend that has diabetes.

Super friendly rider saved my tail at about the 38mi mark when I bonked in the heat. I had plenty of fluids, but was was sweating heavily enough that I was crusted in salt. He stopped while I was munching on a Cliff bar to give me some salt and make sure I was doing alright. Never got his name/bib number, but I probably would have been in real trouble if he hadn't happened by.

Did the ride with almost no on the bike training, have been focusing on my running (did my first 1/2 marathon last month) and figured I'd be fine. I was...wrong. 90deg ambient coupled with about 2400' of elevation gain did me in. Oh well, I finished with no harm done. Need to make sure I do it again next year at the 100k distance, haven't done one of those since 2005!