This morning, I got up early to meet up with a set of lovely ladies for a ride through Lake County. Kim mapped out a route that took Erin and I through paved trails and a little bit of crushed limestone. It was picturesque - we saw several families of deer and I snagged this photo when I stopped to use the bathroom before we met up.Also, I've never seen a port-o-potty with a flushing toilet and running water, but that was a nice surprise this morning. Things are classy up north.
We ended up biking almost 34 miles this morning, but I'm not able to upload the data to my computer. I broke the ANT+ stick for my laptop that connects to my Garmin. I snapped it in half, so there's no fixing it. The $32 (yikes) replacement I bought on Amazon should be here tomorrow.
I think my eyes are closed in this photo. Sad. Anyhow, this was a great training ride for next weekend's Venus de Miles ride, which will be half of my Put on my BGP Weekend. We cycled in the area of the course and I got to see how my bike performs on crushed limestone, which is not great, in case you were curious. It was especially scary on the downhills where it was sandy. I never bailed off the bike, but I got close to eating gravel as a result. Also, towards the end of the ride, my bike started shifting gears on its own. I think I need to get in there and clean up the gears before the ride next weekend, but I have no clue what I need to do to get ready for this ride, equipment wise.
What do you do to your bike to get ready for a long ride?
5 comments:
Aww! I love your deer pic!
Sorry the route was crushed limestone. I always forget the North Shore path is like that. I will research better next time.
I wonder what is going on with your bike! Maybe you need to wash it to get all that crushed limestone off. HA HA HA HA HA :) :) :) Wash... your bike? :P
HA, I hear it's really tough to wash a bike ... Gotta get on that.
The route was cool, I'm glad we did it. Thanks again for planning it all!
I wish I knew more about bikes so I could help!
Either way, it was super fun to ride together. Looking forward to Sunday! Hope you don't mind if I crash your tutu party :-)
I'm looking forward to it!
I recently dug out my old bike from the garage and it's now my mission to bike at least once before summer ends!
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