Friday night:
Weather: Cloudy, Slight chance of rain and most definitely cold. Dropped into the 20's that evening.
Start Time: 4:30 pm (give or take).
Distance: (measured in time not miles) 2.5 hrs of biking followed by a short run
Total people count: 3.5 (since I didn't do the full bike ride)
Course: Mostly flat
I just knew no one would show up Friday night for the ride given the rain. Well I was wrong. We had two people join us. Bryan and I dressed quickly and off we went. Unfortunately my head wasn't in the game and I went back once is started raining.
Day one: weather 1pt Tiffany 0pt
The opposite was true for Bryan he arrived home an hour later with no feeling in his hands
and ready to run. I opted not to do the run and told him to have fun.
Saturday morning:
Weather: Beautiful, but seriously cold. High's in the low 30's and low's in the low 20's. Let's just say it was nippy outside. After a short delay, we went out.
Distance: 3hr ride followed by a short run
Total people count: 1.5 (again I only lasted for a little while)
Course: Hilly (upon request by me)
I was determine to "stay in" and ride the trainer but after much encouragement (more like pleading) I agreed to ride with Bryan. But only on one condition we had to do a lot of hills. The more the better. 20 minutes into our ride Bryan's rear shiftier was not working. I joked and told him it was frozen, turns out I was right. After a slight detour to the bike shop we were back to our ride climbing those hills. Around my 5th decent it was time for me to check out. Tired of putting the strangle hold on my rear brakes (talk about building those forearms)I decided to call it a day.
Day 2: Weather 2pt Tiffany 0pt Bryan of course continued on his merry way and finished with a run.
Sunday morning ride:
Weather: Low twenty's at the start of our bike ride. (Are you kidding me... When will this ever
end.) Yes my friends that is ice.
Distance: Goal 4 hours of biking that turned into 5 to 6 hrs of biking followed by the shortest run in recorded history.
Total people count: 3.5 (Once again I had to cut my ride short but this time it was not of my own volition.)
Course: Hills again. (Unfortunately I missed the best, "Woodland mound" a beast of a hill.)
Where we are going.
Where we've been.
Today was going to be my day. Packed my camera for those ever so important photo opps and dresses very warm. Met up at a friend's house and we headed out. Well it didn't go exactly like that. Before leaving I did a 5 minute tutorial on proper cold weather attire for our "cold weather bike virgins", then we were off.
Want some "chew"
Although it was cold we warmed up pretty quickly, left my bike in the big chain ring and attacked those hills. About 2 hours into my ride I heard a funny noise followed by another funny noise, not good. Bryan gave my bike a quick look over, gave my the thumbs up and off we went. Actually off he went until he heard me shout and looked back to see me capsized. The problem was turning me peddles had become a lot harder. Diagnosis broken spoke and a wheel that was rubbing against my bike frame. Shortly after the bike ambulance came to take my injured bike home. I opted not to run the almost marathon distance to get home and rode with my bike.
Day Three: Tiffany 1pt Bike 0pt
Bryan, Scott and Brad continued on for what turned out to be another 4 hours.
We ended the weekend with three amazing soups cooked by Scott's wife (Sandy). While listening to stories about Scott unsuccessful attempt at killing a fish.
"Llamas" Once we figured out that my bike was down for the count. I had that chance to take pics of the llamas.
More llamas
What a great week, Tiffany
