Monthly Archive: August 2007

Lauren with the red Trek

Hotter’n Hell? Nope. Hot as? Probably.

Couldn’t find a good enough reason to trek to Wichita Falls for the annual roasting of 10,000 plus cyclists, but I did manage to find a century from my usual Saturday morning group ride. Wow. Slower moving speed, but a new PR overall time of 7 hours 35 minutes makes me pretty happy. Thanks to Todd and Beth (not her real name) for a fantastic day on fantastic roads touring the...

Fuji at rest on a cold winter's day in Dallas

One weekend, two centuries

What a beating… Yesterday’s metric century was totally painless, though. Pretty cool to log 164 miles in two days in any case! Things started off great with a plan to ride down to Sunnyvale so that we’d be outbound into the wind and have a tailwind on the return. I started to worry when I kept seeing Mark up at the front leading, as we were going at a decent clip with...

Fuji at rest on a cold winter's day in Dallas

A great way to spend a Saturday morning

Fabulous ride! Fabulous day! We came out of the gate flying, nearly 18 mph average to the break point. Once again, the Branch break point was a cluster 7v(# with a few 2-intendees getting swept into the 1s and a number of 1s nearly getting left at the church. A group of 4 got stuck at the light crossing 380 at Bridgefarmer. Kent, I, Jeff, Smurfette, Kai and 4 people I...

Titanium Motobecane mountain bike in repose

The sorts of crazy things

So… here’s the sort of thing that goes through the mind of the sort of person who rides 100 miles on a 95 degree day in north Texas… Great ride! Got a *##(*$( flat, but that’s better than I’ve been doing lately… Don, Renee & Mark rode the century option. David fired up the excuse generator and mumbled something about his kid and the park… Jeff Frye (who I’m blaming for...