30 miles before work today, plus another 6 on the commute home.
18 ave. all day

boy did they crush me today, I was hanging off the back @ 25 as they kept ramping up to 27 or so.

I gave chase and couldn't bridge back up, turned early, had to wait at a light, made the turn, kept going and while looking down trying to figure out some weird feeling when I noticed the shadow of a helmet under me that wasn't mine.

It was the guys and they were playing cat and mouse with me and had been behind for a bit. ok, wanna play lets go, ran up from 20 to 25 and hung for a bit more. Rode the last 8 or so back by myself.

Great ride though

Good solo ride today, just beat the rain that moved in as I walked in the front door.

Todays ride 29.58 (s)miles
Total this mo. 489.98 (s)miles
Total this yr. 2468.16 (s)miles

:cheers:

I was feeling beat up from the last 2 days' efforts after a week of rain, so I bailed on this morning's ride. Silly me, they rode easy today, or so they said, and I could have hung, most of the time anyway.

Today's 13 mile commute only, ave 17 fixed with a 52/17, or 80 gear inch

apparently you florida punks sent the rain up here (along with your famous lighting). been off the bike for two days. I will either be fresh as daisy for english mountain tomorrow or numb and complacent.

Ummmm sorry??? Ohhhh wait it still rained for 2 or 3hrs here yesterday too.... LOL I hate the lightning though!!!

Hope to ride today, have to go pick my bike up at the shop..

We just wanted to share the love with our brethern in the North.:lol:

Good ride this morning, rains on the way here this afternoon, neked chicken. You will be well rested for the English Mt. ride, think positive.

Todays ride 25.39 (s)miles
Total this mo. 515.37 (s)miles
Total this yr. 2493.55 (s)miles

:cheers:

Today's total involved my commute, shop ride and commute home that included a few extra miles to meet up the wife who rode to work today also.

42 m
18 ave
29.8 max (short sprint)
2:22 total time
123 m this week

I did about 17 miles this afternoon - went out sight seeing. I actually wound up back at the Narrows of the Harpeth state park. This time I did about a mile's worth of hiking and went up to the ridge where you can see the river on one side, and the river on the other - some places the crest of the ridge is only a few feet across. Also went and checked out where the water exits on the other side of the ridge. (the narrows is a 5 mile loop of river that travels around a ridge and when it's back to back w/ the ridge between, it is 200' from it's self - a tunnel was bored through the ridge to run a forge) It's a great reason to ride with MTB shoes on... you get to do a little sight-seeing if you want to.

outlet of the tunnel
hiking traik
up on the ridge

I got my bike back from the shop today. While there this guy brings in an OLD Schwinn road bike. I don't know bike that well, but it was a steel frame with rusted steel wheels. Looked like electrical tape on the bars. I overhear the guy talking to the mechanic he says "yeah I have worn off all the teeth on most of the rear sprockets"... Yep he said sprockets not cassette. Says he has been riding in the same gear for a LONG time now. When he wore one gear out he would switch to another... I guess he ran out of gears... LOL He then goes on to say that "the front gear (not chain ring) came off of a mountain bike"... He said he liked the ratio and would like to keep it the same if possible when they put a new "sprocket" on. Says he rides 30 miles a day in the summer and more in the winter. I'm thinking to myself... he LOVES that bike.... how cool!!!

Anyway.... rode 17.38 miles today.... Felt really bad for the first 6 miles.. heat I think. Stopped to take a pic... after that felt really good. Saw a baby gator sunning itself in the middle of the trail. (see What have you found while riding thread for pic).

Great ride today, a little hot and humid but I will take it over cold and rainy any day.

Todays ride 56.13 (s)miles
Total this mo. 571.50 (s)miles
Total this yr. 2549.68 (s)miles

GO MAGIC....

:cheers:

too wiped for details

rode to shop for sat 7:30 ride
limped back into the shop after 49
then home after work

3 hours
55.5 miles
18 ave
all day

Sunday morning ride today. Felt good right from the start. 26.24 miles. Thought I was going to have to ride the last 6 or 7 miles into the wind...... but for once the wind changed direction in my favor and the last 6 or 7 was with a slight tail wind .... :D

Nice easy ride this evening. Wow two days with no rain..

Todays ride 21.35 (s)miles
Total this mo. 592.85 (s)miles
Total this yr. 2571.03 (s)miles

GO MAGIC....Eastern division champs

:cheers:

19.99 miles today (yeah... didn't notice it was .99 ... or I would have went a tad further...LOL)

Started riding about 5:45pm or so, got to the turn around point at 10 miles. Had planned on taking a bit of a rest at the nice bench there. Got off the bike and before I got sat down there were about 50 mosquitoes flying around me or on me. Got back on the bike as fast as I could.... Think I'm going to get some of those Off wipes to carry with me. Cus I would HATE to have a flat or something and get stuck trying to fix it with a TON of mosquitoes attacking me.

Bull frog mosquito coast is an excelent sunblock and bug deterant

About 20mi on the fixie yesterday evening. And no rain for us either!

Nice easy ride this evening. Flat rear tire about a mile from the house. Wow three days with no rain..(well we did have a light sprinkle)

Todays ride 21.48(s)miles
Total this mo. 21.48 (s)miles
Total this yr. 2592.51 (s)miles

GO MAGIC....Eastern division champs

:cheers:

Rode up to work today and there was no one to ride with, so I headed out on my own for about 21 miles. The ride home after work was slower with a head wind part of the way.

2 hours in the saddle for 33+ miles at 17 mph

starting something new this week. i took off a day after the english mountain ride. yesterday the ride was short and intense. i had read about interval training but never could comprehend it here in the constant up and down of the local terrain. so i chose areas of slight incline to do 3 min intervals. i don't have HR monitor or anything, i just blast as hard as possible for the time keeping my cadence above 80. i am going to do a 3 min. day, a 15 min day(interval duration), and a long ride on the weekend (or a long climb) that is for miles not intensity. any other day will be bonus because of my schedule. oh, i do two intervals on an hour ride.
i have a goal: to complete three prominent mountains here in one day, English Mountain, Bluff Mountain, and the road up the Smoky Mountains to Newfound Gap and Clingman's Dome. Along with my son, we tried to do all three in one day a year ago but abandoned after the second (Bluff). We went too fast at the start and he (thankfully! cuz I was dying) said, "I don't think I am going to make it", while climbing Bluff. I am unsure of the total miles, but it's a goal for this year.

Sure hope you didn't sound or seem too excited when your son said he wasn't going to make it...

just my commute today, I could have gone in early and riden with one person who would have killed me, unless he was feeling generous, damned he's strong.

13'ish round trip
ave about 17

it's like a sprint out of the blocks some mornings

17.86 miles today. Really didn't feel like riding, just felt blah... But figured if I didn't ride I would feel worse later... LOL OMG ....... So so humid

Nice ride this morning. got home about 30 minutes before the rain. Very high humidity.

Todays distance 46.30 (s)miles
Total distance this mo. 67.78 (s)miles
Total distance this yr. 2638.81 (s)miles

GO MAGIC....Eastern division NBA champs

:cheers:

Get used to it, guys ... we're into the "trip 90's" now ... that's 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity for 90 days straight! Welcome to Florida!
:thumb:

yada yada yada

now, if someone would just remember to set the sprinklers for that 3-3:30 afternoon soaking and stop ruining my ride home I'll be happy.

30 miles with no commute home, since my ride showed up in time for it to clear

I kept banging my head into the steering wheel the whole drive home.