I was able to pick the streak back up on Friday for a nice 22 mile ride at Springbrook. Half of it was solo and I was joined by a coworker who lives near me for the middle section of the ride. It was a nice warm-up for the leg thrashing that I got from YC and the boyz on the FRT the next day.
I continued the bike festivities at Palos for the Meltdown race. I volunteered all day long and got to see some folks giving it their all. I've got to hand it to the sport and expert racers. They were killing it out there, especially the winner of the expert class, Thomas Bender. He was an absolute machine. I was on on the course with CDT and we were able to see him hammer through all four laps. He was on fire.
A little more rain hit us yesterday so the streak was over. However I'm still plugging away by getting a short 10 miler out this evening.
Tonight I realized that I need to do a lot more work if I want to get better than last at a ChiCrossCup race this Fall.
Hill repeats, here I come.
Showing posts with label Work rides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work rides. Show all posts
September 9, 2008
August 30, 2008
It was a good week
Group Rides: We had the Knoch Knolls beginner ride this week and I did a short FRT ride after work with a coworker this week as well, luckily he didn't die on me. It was nice to spread some bike riding joy around this week.
Big Wheels: I rode a 29er 1x9 at the Knoch Knolls ride and I pretty much liked it. You really don't need to change gears much there, but there were a few times that I was glad to be able to drop it into a little cog in back and haul it down the widetrack. I admit, I love popping into the big ring at Springbrook and getting some speed whenever I ride the Kona out there. The IRO is still my favorite bike right now though, I don't really NEED gears when I'm riding out here anyway.
Solo Rides: Springbrook and more Springbrook, it ain't dirt but it's right outside my door. I'd also like to ride at FDR Dubuque before the weekend is out if that's possible. If not, we'll still have the alpine slides.
Big Wheels: I rode a 29er 1x9 at the Knoch Knolls ride and I pretty much liked it. You really don't need to change gears much there, but there were a few times that I was glad to be able to drop it into a little cog in back and haul it down the widetrack. I admit, I love popping into the big ring at Springbrook and getting some speed whenever I ride the Kona out there. The IRO is still my favorite bike right now though, I don't really NEED gears when I'm riding out here anyway.
Solo Rides: Springbrook and more Springbrook, it ain't dirt but it's right outside my door. I'd also like to ride at FDR Dubuque before the weekend is out if that's possible. If not, we'll still have the alpine slides.
August 6, 2008
Silver Springs State Park
I had the opportunity to lead a group ride from the office out to Silver Springs State Park. The park is just west of Rt. 47 in Yorkville. We left work around 5:15 or so. There are two lots there and I mistaken led us into the eastern lot first, we left there and did the loop on the west side, then got back to the parking lot at work a little bit after 6pm. 13 miles in about 50 minutes. It's really not bad since I had to stop along the way and fill up my rear tire. It developed a slow leak somewhere on the way back.
All on asphalt in case you were wondering.
These group rides are a lot of fun. It's cool to hang out with folks from the office in a different setting and chat with them on the ride. I'm looking forward to more after-work rides like this one or trails like the FRT or Virgil Gilman Trail. OK, maybe I'm looking forward to the ones away from motorized traffic a little bit more. ;)
All on asphalt in case you were wondering.
These group rides are a lot of fun. It's cool to hang out with folks from the office in a different setting and chat with them on the ride. I'm looking forward to more after-work rides like this one or trails like the FRT or Virgil Gilman Trail. OK, maybe I'm looking forward to the ones away from motorized traffic a little bit more. ;)
July 31, 2008
Lunch rides and Beverly Lake
One of the nice things about working with folks who are conscious of their health is that everyone there likes to be active. That means things like lunch time bike rides are appealing to some of us. I had the pleasure of participating in a couple of them last year, but we've had a long drought of them ever since. That ended today when I led a couple of folks on a nearly four mile loop around the neighborhood near the office. It was fun to be out riding the Monocog on my lunch hour. I'm looking forward to many more lunchtime and after-work rides this year.
After work I was able to join a bunch of friends up at Beverly Lake for an exploratory ride of the trails out there. This forest preserve looks like it'll be an awesome win for CAMBr Northwest once we can begin some trailwork out there. The place has a lot of singletrack that hasn't been maintained for a long time, but with a bit of work the trail system out there could have more mileage that Palos and it'd have mile after mile of the sweet twisty singletrack that we all love so well.
After work I was able to join a bunch of friends up at Beverly Lake for an exploratory ride of the trails out there. This forest preserve looks like it'll be an awesome win for CAMBr Northwest once we can begin some trailwork out there. The place has a lot of singletrack that hasn't been maintained for a long time, but with a bit of work the trail system out there could have more mileage that Palos and it'd have mile after mile of the sweet twisty singletrack that we all love so well.
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