Thursday, July 28, 2011

It's Thursday.......

and time for the twice weekly Rocky Butte hill repeats ride. For the last month and a half or so the Thursday ride has been a smaller group than the Tuesday gang. I'm not sure what to attribute it to. There are two other rides scheduled on the club's calendar, maybe that's it. No problem, the hill is still there, we still ride up it.
Tonight there were 4 of us. Even by Thursday standards it was a small group. On Tuesday we had two first timers join us, one of them came back for more torture. Okay, she was smiling most of the time.


It was a hot night, with the temperature just a bit above 90 degrees when we started.
One of our group had other plans later tonight so started a bit early, and left a bit early. Our smiling rookie managed to score 5 ascents tonight!



After playing on the hill for 90 minutes our official ride was over and usually some of us retire to a local watering hole for refreshments/snacks. Tonight one left early, one had to get home, and the third thought it best to head home since Tuesday we all got a bit late before getting home.

That just left me there......... what's a guy to do? Well, ride the %#^@%# bike of course! I decided that I was already there, the hill was still there, and it would be daylight another 90 minutes or so, I might as well ride bonus miles. ;-)

I only got five ascents tonight during the allotted 90 minutes, just too busy chatting, taking photos, etc.
I did better the second 90 minutes, getting another 6 climbs, and totaling just over 5000 feet of climbing.

A bit warm, but still a good night for riding.


........road bike.......rollers.........mtb.....lifecycle.....total
Today........32..............0.............0..........0.........32
Jan.........474..............0............21..........7.........502
Feb.........530..............0.............0..........0.........530
March.......502..............0.............0..........0.........502
April.......524..............0.............0..........0.........524
May........1003..............0.............0..........0........1003
June.......1016..............0............10..........0........1026
July........903..............0.............0..........0.........903
YTD........4956..............0............37..........7........5000

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