The National Bike Challenge is on!
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@TwoWheelsDC 21180 wrote:
Tour de Cure was today out on the W&OD, so I imagine we’ll be seeing a lot of mileage put on by the DC community. I ran into the ride unwittingly while doing my own century ride and there were a TON of people out there.
We were downtown Saturday morning and the Run for the Cure was just finishing up. Lots of pink.
I fit right in.@consularrider 21200 wrote:
I was sweep ride marshal for the 50+ mile route out to Purcellville. With the ride to and from the start in Reston, I got my third straight Sunday century in. Too bad all three were the length of the W&OD and back.
That is a rough ride…. Sean and I did a long ride in MoCo that ended with us riding the C&O from Violet’s Lock to Chain Bridge on Sunday afternoon. It was a lot of mellow, waiting for a gap to appear followed by a brief acceleration to get to open space.
It was a LOVELY day to be on a bike.
@Dirt 21394 wrote:
Nice to see CReadinger put in a good ride today. Welcome back!!!
Thank you thank you. When we got back last night I decided on our walk home from the airport that I was going to ride to work today no matter what. All went well. I just have to use the big-ass bandaids to cover the wound every day. It’s healing slowly but hardly any pain now, which is good because I’m desperate to get back to routine riding.
On a much different topic – This weekend in Minnesota we visited my 3 and 4 year old nephews. On Friday soon after we arrived, Kody, the younger one who had been having some trouble learning how to pedal his bike finally had the light switch turn on!!! He had a big smile on his face as he pedaled up and down their big driveway and he literally spent several hours of the 4 days we were there riding! It was a really cool thing to see. That’s how I got the mile I logged on Saturday; he wanted me to ride with him so for more than an hour one day we rode big circles together. Their mom said that up until we showed up he would try for a minute or so then get frustrated and give up.
Hopefully there’s a new cyclist among us, but then again he’s also obsessed (OBSESSED!!) with tractors.
In the middle of a 96 mile fixie mountain bike death march on Sunday, we stopped at the Montgomery County pump track to turn a few laps. A young dad was there with his 5 year old twin boys. They were tearing around the pump track with an amazing amount of joy. They had a really healthy sense of competition with each other and were both ecstatic to be riding. Dad said they’d really just mastered the ability to turn laps a week or two earlier and beg to get down there every chance they can. Dad said that bed time has become MUCH easier, as both are pretty much exhausted well before sunset.
Awesome to see young recruits so passionate about it!
Rock on!
Pete
Good to see almost all the A team checking in!
It’s interesting to see combined daily miles in the team, and the daily variations. I don’t think you can see them for other teams, so here’s some recent days from the A team:
May
27 – 128
28 – 242
29 – 208
30 – 173
31 – 195
Jun
1 – 52
2 – 34
3 – 171
4 – 180
5 – 201The highest I’ve seen is 488 miles on May 20.
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