TeteDeLaCourse

Good information there, Octo! I did stick out my hand to break my fall. Didn't break anything but my wrist is a bit sore today. Glad I was wearing gloves though. I went down to my right and my left leg has a bruise in the shape of my top tube...LOL. It looks weird.

Hawkeye, AWESOME JOB!! Don't know how I missed that post. My friend from CA was at RAGBRAI too.

14 miles tonight. And my first fall! Is there a technical term for stopping faster than you can unclip? Other than "DOH!!"

Oh yeah, put me down for 400 this month. I know I can do 300 easily...I need to push a little harder though!

Sol, you are amazing.

I bought a couple of tubes of Nuun tablets. They have all the electrolytes but not all the sugar and calories that Gatorade has. They have a lot of different flavors and they're not bad. Kinda taste like salty, watered-down KoolAid.

I used to have knee problems myself, so I feel your pain!

"CD's going for a quickie... <laugh> " I'm glad I'm not the ONLY one who had to laugh at that!!

2.5 hours today. I'm beat but it was worth it. A cute Middle Eastern kid at the c-store thought I was 29 or 30. I'm 47. I asked him to marry me. :-D

Good luck to you RAGBRAI riders! One of my friends is out there now.

You're lucky. Mine would say "If you eat nothing for the next year you'll weigh 114 pounds!"

I'm up for a Vuelta challenge too! Skywalker: Thank you! It definitely put it in perspective for me.

A few days ago I was at -38 calories for the day (big cycling day). It said "If every day...blah blah blah" I'd weigh 30 lbs less than I did then. WHAT?? I think I'd be dead.

And yes, the gray one on the right IS a t-shirt. It's not a tent. :laugh:

I rode yesterday AND today! I went early today, learned my lesson from yesterday. Want to see what cycling has done for me? The gray t-shirt on the right is one of my favorites from last year. I still wear it to sleep in sometimes. The clothes on the right are my cycling clothes that I wear now. "One of these things is not…

I was NOT going to ride today but I kinda had to. So I'm in for 50 minutes.

I rode about 14 miles this morning.

TDS, that's some nice riding!! Good luck!!

7/19: Only 13 miles. OMG, HOT and humid!

Forgot...no riding today! I jumped in the lake after riding yesterday and cut up my feet on some shells. Snails or something. I hope they didn't have parasites. Gross.

7/17 rode about 2.5 hours. Lots of climbing. Extreme heat and humidity. Fun times!

No riding for me today. I'm doing a long hilly ride tomorrow though. And it's going to be 92 and humid. But it's not the Pyrenees so I really shouldn't complain. LOL

Octo, I posted that same thing on my Facebook page yesterday! LOL!

I only rode 45 minutes today. Hot and humid out.

7/14 only rode for an hour.

90 minutes today. Probably another hour later.

Hawkeye, OMG, that's terrible!! I hope nobody was hurt!

Ahhh, that could be part of my problem too, lack of core strength. I'm definitely putting way too much weight on my hands when I'm on the hoods. The drops feel a lot better but I just don't ride there a lot. I'm working on the core strength though. It'll be interesting to see if it helps. Thanks for all the suggestions!

3 hours for 7/10. Today's my rest day! :-)

EPIC day yesterday (Saturday)...four hours of riding!