We started our weekend riding actually on Friday morning with a short ride we try to do a few mornings each week. It's only about a half hour, but we get in a few hills. Friday evening after Nancy came home, we did another frequent ride of ours - to the Art Museum and back via the river drives. It's a mostly flat ride except (as always) for the big hill right near our house.
Saturday afternoon was the day for a longer, hilly ride. It was about a 24 mile route on a road that goes by pretty farms and countryside. However, it turned out to be pretty narrow and with a lot of cars. We decided not to do that ride again. On the good side, we didn't find the hills impossible. We were definitely working for them but they were doable. This was our first ride where we tried Cliff "Shot Blocks". They seemed to help but it wasn't such a long ride so we weren't sure. They did taste okay so that was a plus.
Sunday was a day off for gardening and hanging with some friends from Nancy's work.
Today we did our longest ride ever - 38.8 miles (we wish could have tacked on another 1.2 miles just to make it an even 40!). This was a flat ride - same ride as a few weeks ago only farther but our aim was just to do a long ride. This time the "Shot Blocks" were a big help.
Here are some pics from our ride on Saturday. Part of the ride went by an arboretum that had a cool art installation so we had to stop and snap a few of that. Oh, and one of me with ice on my knee after today's ride :)
2 comments:
You guys rock!! Was that bag of ice left over from your G & Ts ???
El forgot to mention the little dog that we almost ran over, and all the swearing that we had to do at the IDIOTS who were on the bike paths on Monday. You'd think it was a family recreational holiday or something! Don't mess with girls in training (on hormones).
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