Billy Rides!

I've been pretty busy at work...finally got in 2 full trips of commuting to work in April, I'm up to 10 ful trips, 20 one way trips. April 21, went to San Marcos to ride a quick 20 mile ride before my cousin Billy's first special olympics bike ride. It was a great ride w Kellie, we turned into the subdivision at 18 miles, so we wound our way around some streets to hit 20! Billy has excelled in Special Olympics in track in the Pentathalon. He went to Nationals and the world championships. He grew tired of track, so he decided to ride bikes this year. They found training difficult because of not being able to find a 3 mile track that didn't include stop signs or hills. That didn't seem to discourage him too much. He placed 2nd in the time trial & first in the road race. I was only able to watch the time trial.

Way to go Billy!

EHCT-2012

Last year I had plans to ride in the Easter Hill Country Tour , not sure what happened, but I did not go. Luckily this year KPT & V were all 'In'!

Left from work on Thursday with a beer in the hand to make the journey to Kerrville. Once there we found Schreiner University to grab our packets.

What's interesting about EHCT, is there isn't a mass start, you start when you want to. The routes are clearly marked, The rest stops are only opened a certain number of hours, so you have to plan accordingly. Each day there are several routes to choose from.


For Friday we decided to do the 39.8 mile route, that way we would save some energy for Saturday and do 61 miles.


Little did we know the 1557 feet in climbing along with the 85 degrees would get to us. Looking back on the routes, we prob should have done the 55 on Friday (same amount of climbing, flatter coming back home).



Bummed, kinda, that I took a hike w my bike, but I could not breathe!

We relaxed, ate and drank a few beers, pretty much lazy the rest of the day.
But we did reach a consensus that 33 miles for the next day would be enough.

On Saturday, we finally hit the road by 11:30 (what 8 am start?)As we were leaving more were finishing, but we weren't last. There was one big climb that I would hike up. Gotta get stronger! But after that ride we were on a very cool country road, then it was all downhill coming back.



We realized before we went to bed at 9:55PM, that if we rode 28 miles we would hit 100 miles for the weekend, so instead of driving to Schreiner U we road and added on the extra 8 miles.

Great weekend! I can't wait to do it next year!

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Miles for this ride: 39.51, 33.33, 28.08
Minutes on the bike: 181, 143, 120
Miles so far for the week: 100.92
Total miles for the month: for April: 100.92
Total miles for 2012: 483
Miles to go: 1529 miles til 2012
Elevation climbing for these rides: 1557, 1143, 385

Odometer: Road: 12209
Cross: 104.6

March by the numbers

March was a sad month for cycling Kim style.
I managed to not commute to work (it rained several Fridays when I had planned on riding, yes, I could have tested out my new rain jacket, but it would have been cold)


We did start up the Tuesday night ABCx rides!st ride was great to see most everyone again, it will be a good season.




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Total miles for the month: for March: 111.31
Total miles for 2012: 390.93
Miles to go: 1621 miles til 2012
One way commuting trips:0 :-( (new record for Kim for February!
Total one way commuting trips: 16

Odometer: Road: 12108
Cross: 104.6

Rosedale Ride

The 18th annual Rosedale Ride was Saturday. This ride benefits the local special needs school. I've only riden it one other time, 2010, it has a reputation for being very windy.

Since many of the ABCxer's signed up, I did, too. Weather.com had predicted a sunny windfree day. For the most part it was windfree, but the sun didn't make an appearance until after the ride.



All the turns were staffed by teachers who were dressed up, costumes ranged from Hot Dogs to the Desparate Housewifes. Each turn made me smile.

43 miles on the bike, not bad considering the most I've riden has been 28. Next weekend with the Spokes & Spurs will be the test--hills.

Most of us: Kellie, Nancy, Joy, Leslie 7 i rode the 43, Kristen & Victor rode 60!

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Miles for this ride: 43.5
Minutes on the bike: 180
Miles so far for the week: 69.1
Total miles for the month: for March 103.36
Total miles for 2012: 383
Miles to go: 1629 miles til 2012

Odometer: Road: 12100
Cross: 104.6

Willow City Loop

The wild flowers are out, the wild flowers ae out!


So, KPT, Victor & I went to Willow City to check them out.


La Victoria for breakfast, then off the WCLoop. Windy & cloudy day, but the flowers were out so all was good. They were so pretty and the fragrance was incredible.


After our ride, which I'm proud to say I made it up the hill without stopping (last time I stopped 2-3 times) we went to the "Knot in the Loop" for beers & burgers.








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Miles for this ride: 25.7
Minutes on the bike: 131
Miles so far for the week: 25.7
Total miles for the month: for March 69.86
Total miles for 2012: 340.49
Miles to go: 1672 miles til 2012

Odometer: Road: 12057
Cross: 104.6

February & year stats

Finished off February w/ a ride into work, my first ride on Feb 29 that I can recall.


Final Stats for the end of February:

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Total miles for the month: for February: 110.32
Total miles for 2012: 265.62
Miles to go: 1746 miles til 2012
One way commuting trips: 10! (new record for Kim for February!
Total one way commuting trips: 16

Odometer: Road: 12003
Cross: 90.9

Moon Tower cache 3 & 4

Went w MB on a ride to go grab 2 more moon tower caches. First moon tower was on Speedway, i've known about this tower for a while. Found the cache using the phone (ugh, my ebay gps stinks!) Then to remember that I forgot a pen. There was a cool coin inside, question is, is it trackable? Since we couldn't sign the log, we left it, (I think) I did try to sign the log w/ mud 7 a stick...fail.




Now on to Moon Tower #4 in west campus. I don't recall ever seeing one, so instead of using the gps, we used our eyes. After not having anyluck, we rode to the top of th Coop Parking garage to look for it. GPS & phone said it was 500 ft in the direction of a tall building, So we rode towards that building. I soon spotted just the base (the towere was missing) had read earlier that this tower was hit by a car at some point & 'rebuilt' I guess the base was the rebuild.

we looked for several minutes trying to find the cache. MB did find a penny pressed into one of the towers for a guideline, from 1991, so after the car hit it in the early 1990's. So, after a DNF, we headed to spicy pickle so MB could get a sandwich, I went next door to 7-11 to get the best sandwich--ice cream. Then back home.
:-)

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Miles for this ride: 10.56
Minutes on the bike: 68
Miles so far for the week: 10.56
Total miles for the month: for February 92.59
Total miles for 2012: 247.89
Miles to go: 1764 miles til 2012

Odometer: Road: 12003
Cross: 73.1