Back in September a fellow cyclist from the France trip sent me this link:
Interview w Karin Linner
of course while I'm reading it, I'm thinking, "darn it why didn't I know about this sooner!"
So I started following links to see how it was going and I ended up on the Pedal Stroke FB page and saw this post "Hi All and Thank you for your support! You must be wondering why I'm not on the road yet? Well.. we needed some more time to get funding, sponsors and plan my trip on the bike from Boulder to NYC better. So now I'm set to ride in May 2012. Yeah!!
Keep following me here in the meantime - continuing useful information and shenanigans guaranteed! =)" I can ride with her!!!! oh boy so many questions! How many miles a day? How fast? What can I help you with?
So, I liked her page on FB and sent her an email. and it looks like I will be riding w Karin at least part of the way! So wish I could go the entire distance but to go across one state or the width of Texas will be awesome, all while spreading stroke awareness!
Turns out Karin plans to ride about 50 miles a day, I can do that, now I'm just waiting to see the route to figure out where & when I will join her. And to keep riding my bike, esp in the cold, cuz May in the midwest isn't May in Texas!
20111021
Finally back on the bike... after a week off
I took a week off after the Mamma Jamma, and then the day I was supposed to ride, it rained 2" for the first time in months in Austin!
So that Monday I rode after work, worked on drills, then I did a BTH & BTW turn around on Weds/Thur or Tues/Weds followed by a full BTW day on the mountain bike. Of course the full day I only had to bike to Zilker, but carrying a drill, an extra battery & the charger made it interesting. And riding the mtn bike at 8 in the morning was so much diff than riding the road bike.
Since it was such a beautiful day, I decided to take the long way home and go home via the Shoal Creek Trail, besides it's always good to change up your routes.
On Saturday I road w/ ABCx, it was good to get together w everyone, we did 21 out & back on Parmer.
Then Sunday was a 13 mile ride w MB. First country road ride together, she did great and I'm looking forward to more rides w/ her!
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Miles for this ride: 14.7 mtn bike to work, 20.5 ABCx, 13.01 MB
Miles for the week: 58
Total miles for the month: 154 (this one is hard to keep up with)
Total miles for 2011: 1696 not including mtn bike rides
Miles to go: -196 to hit 1500 304 to 2011
Odometer: 11505
So that Monday I rode after work, worked on drills, then I did a BTH & BTW turn around on Weds/Thur or Tues/Weds followed by a full BTW day on the mountain bike. Of course the full day I only had to bike to Zilker, but carrying a drill, an extra battery & the charger made it interesting. And riding the mtn bike at 8 in the morning was so much diff than riding the road bike.
Since it was such a beautiful day, I decided to take the long way home and go home via the Shoal Creek Trail, besides it's always good to change up your routes.
On Saturday I road w/ ABCx, it was good to get together w everyone, we did 21 out & back on Parmer.
Then Sunday was a 13 mile ride w MB. First country road ride together, she did great and I'm looking forward to more rides w/ her!
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Miles for this ride: 14.7 mtn bike to work, 20.5 ABCx, 13.01 MB
Miles for the week: 58
Total miles for the month: 154 (this one is hard to keep up with)
Total miles for 2011: 1696 not including mtn bike rides
Miles to go: -196 to hit 1500 304 to 2011
Odometer: 11505
20111005
Mamma Jamma "Century"
Well, the day finally arrived. After riding for 3+ months w/ all the Austin Bike Chix, this was finally their day to ride the Mamma Jamma. I think I was so excited for them that once again, I didn't sleep well. Wasn't too worried since I slept great on Weds & Thurs, but I knew I would be out of it.
We arrived at Reunion Ranch later than I wanted to, oh well, everyone from ABCx was pitching in to get everything set up, I wasn't worried.
The jersey's looked great! We could easily spot each other from across the field.
So cool so many ABCxers arrived early to send us off!
7:30, Great send off!
For some reason we stopped at the mile 11 pit stop...gotta do it when nature calls! KPT dropped her sunglasses into the port-a-pot, could have been so much worse--she was the only one to have used it! That was good for a few laughs!
We made it to mile 20 and ran into the Llama who was there to cheer us on & take pics! Thank you Llama!
We started playing the alphabet game around mile 4...just past Andice with the Babptist church...A...B...C...
In the 20's we started to split up as a group, Crystal powered on ahead. We lollygagged at the next rest stop again...only to find out we had 30 mins to go 10 miles to get to the century gate. Time to put it in the big ring! Dropped my back water bottle at mile 38 (said Alison), oh well, I didn't pay for it (thx Luna) but it was a favorite and I feel more bad that I littered. I think I also littered a couple of Luna bars...not a good day for Luna. Well, we finally arrived at 11:08 at the gate and some lady wearing a mask insisted we were too late, so we went on and both of us had already decided we were going to make up the miles, but how?
I think by now we are on letter k...
At mile 50 we turned around to double up on the miles. we added 10 miles on this one, thinking back, we should have gone to the rest stop on the 100 loop, but we were running low on fluids, so 6 miles to the mile 51 pit stop was necessary. Pit stop at mile 61 (51) on letter Q.
At mile 66 we turned right instead of left, and added on some more miles. Still on the letter q for most of the leg until we saw a mail truck w/ 'frequent' on it next to a cowboy on a quarter horse, since we were cheating the route, one cheat in the alphabet game was ok.
At the last pit stop we ran into Crystal. Amazingly we were on the same mileage! After the motherly SAG wanted to haul us in (course closes at 3:30--all other info said 4) we decided to leave.
Now we were still looking for U, I finally could read an underground cable sign. We pass up 4 riders during the last 11 miles! Yes, not last! on one of the last corners all the SAG drivers were cheering for us! Nice welcome, but nothing compared to the welcome received at the finish! VERY COOL! Especially the wall of yellow & green from ABCx! Kristen's face shows how wonderful it was (mine was tired and trying not to run into people in front of me, but I was beaming inside!
Once finished we were at 95.82...time for a lesson in rounding and priorities, go ride 4.18 more miles to get to 100 or drink the cold beer that was handed to me?
(I chose beer!)
THESE LADIES ROCK! 859 MILES and raised over $8,500!!!
And if you are wondering, once we exited 45th and we were still looking for X, found it, so we had to circle back to mopac and exit for Y, then drive to Gullett Elem to get Z!
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Miles for this ride: 95.82 a MJ 'Century'
Miles for the week: 107
Total miles for the month: 95.82 (this one is hard to keep up with)
Total miles for 2011: 1634
Miles to go: -134 to hit 1500 377 to 2011
Odometer: 11444
We arrived at Reunion Ranch later than I wanted to, oh well, everyone from ABCx was pitching in to get everything set up, I wasn't worried.
The jersey's looked great! We could easily spot each other from across the field.
So cool so many ABCxers arrived early to send us off!
7:30, Great send off!
For some reason we stopped at the mile 11 pit stop...gotta do it when nature calls! KPT dropped her sunglasses into the port-a-pot, could have been so much worse--she was the only one to have used it! That was good for a few laughs!
We made it to mile 20 and ran into the Llama who was there to cheer us on & take pics! Thank you Llama!
We started playing the alphabet game around mile 4...just past Andice with the Babptist church...A...B...C...
In the 20's we started to split up as a group, Crystal powered on ahead. We lollygagged at the next rest stop again...only to find out we had 30 mins to go 10 miles to get to the century gate. Time to put it in the big ring! Dropped my back water bottle at mile 38 (said Alison), oh well, I didn't pay for it (thx Luna) but it was a favorite and I feel more bad that I littered. I think I also littered a couple of Luna bars...not a good day for Luna. Well, we finally arrived at 11:08 at the gate and some lady wearing a mask insisted we were too late, so we went on and both of us had already decided we were going to make up the miles, but how?
I think by now we are on letter k...
At mile 50 we turned around to double up on the miles. we added 10 miles on this one, thinking back, we should have gone to the rest stop on the 100 loop, but we were running low on fluids, so 6 miles to the mile 51 pit stop was necessary. Pit stop at mile 61 (51) on letter Q.
At mile 66 we turned right instead of left, and added on some more miles. Still on the letter q for most of the leg until we saw a mail truck w/ 'frequent' on it next to a cowboy on a quarter horse, since we were cheating the route, one cheat in the alphabet game was ok.
At the last pit stop we ran into Crystal. Amazingly we were on the same mileage! After the motherly SAG wanted to haul us in (course closes at 3:30--all other info said 4) we decided to leave.
Now we were still looking for U, I finally could read an underground cable sign. We pass up 4 riders during the last 11 miles! Yes, not last! on one of the last corners all the SAG drivers were cheering for us! Nice welcome, but nothing compared to the welcome received at the finish! VERY COOL! Especially the wall of yellow & green from ABCx! Kristen's face shows how wonderful it was (mine was tired and trying not to run into people in front of me, but I was beaming inside!
Once finished we were at 95.82...time for a lesson in rounding and priorities, go ride 4.18 more miles to get to 100 or drink the cold beer that was handed to me?
(I chose beer!)
THESE LADIES ROCK! 859 MILES and raised over $8,500!!!
And if you are wondering, once we exited 45th and we were still looking for X, found it, so we had to circle back to mopac and exit for Y, then drive to Gullett Elem to get Z!
************************************
Miles for this ride: 95.82 a MJ 'Century'
Miles for the week: 107
Total miles for the month: 95.82 (this one is hard to keep up with)
Total miles for 2011: 1634
Miles to go: -134 to hit 1500 377 to 2011
Odometer: 11444
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