30 miles and 50 bucks
Posted by triwithme on June 17, 2009
Last Saturday me and my biking buddy Julie went on our longest ride EVER…34 miles! It was fantastic. Yet a little boring because we were looping around about a 10 mile loop, so we kept seeing the same people over and over. We did however, almost get hit by a mower because the city believes saturday mornings are great times to mow the sides of the trail.
We got to mile 10 and had gone on a trail we hadn’t been on before and ran into a mountain. Seriously I thought it was going straight up, and I looked at map my ride for an approximate elevation calculation and found one place where it said it was a 7-8% grade and another that puts it more at a 2-3% grade. My chain had popped off halfway up the hill before that one, but I did discover that the last half of the Reckless Redneck 1 mile downhill race is held on this hill so I’m not the only one that thinks it’s a doozy. Here’s the elevation chart: (full version)
I’ve also been on the lookout for a new pair of cycling shorts because I only have one and riding multiple times a week means lots of laundering. So I stopped by a different store than normal and hit the jackpot…TWO pairs of $90 shorts in my size and I snagged them for $24.99 each. So I got two pairs of really good shorts for less than what a normal pair would cost ($55-75) and saved $130. Evidently they were leftover from a sale they had a while back, and the tag in them says they are a few years old of a style, and I can tell that they are dated a bit because the seams aren’t flat sewn and the pad is a little stiffer, but they are a great steal at that price. Especially because the ’09 version of the shorts is priced at $100. I was stoked. Woohoo!
