Date: Jan 26 Mon
Weather: 25F
Mileage: 13 (Trek)
January mileage: 341
Year to date: 341
After work. No commute due to Friday mishap and need to take Trek home. See more at first blog.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
RCCS #1
Date: Jan 25 Sun
Weather: 23F
Mileage: 28 (Bleriot)
January mileage: 328
Year to date: 328
Rode the Maiden Voyage of the RCCS, ride report found here. 8 brave souls in the 23F cold air rode a 20m loop into New Albany, with me and Dave doing another 8m through Crescent Hill and to Champions Park. Nice time and hope to do it again.
Weather: 23F
Mileage: 28 (Bleriot)
January mileage: 328
Year to date: 328
Rode the Maiden Voyage of the RCCS, ride report found here. 8 brave souls in the 23F cold air rode a 20m loop into New Albany, with me and Dave doing another 8m through Crescent Hill and to Champions Park. Nice time and hope to do it again.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Penguin Waddle
Date: Jan 16 Fri
Weather: 12F
Mileage: 18 (TrekSS)
January mileage: 234
Year to date: 234
report of FuckGas's Penguin Waddle at texluavullcycling tomorrow. Great time at 12F. That's just short of 30m for the day with the high temp at 17F and a low at -1F.
Weather: 12F
Mileage: 18 (TrekSS)
January mileage: 234
Year to date: 234
report of FuckGas's Penguin Waddle at texluavullcycling tomorrow. Great time at 12F. That's just short of 30m for the day with the high temp at 17F and a low at -1F.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
A perfect 18
Date: Jan 10 Sat
Weather: 47F, wet and drizzly
Mileage: 15 (Crosscheck) + 3 (Monocog)
January mileage: 144
Year to date: 144
No, it wasn't epic nor was it the most amazing scenery or enlightened moment. It was just a perfect way to spend an hour on a Saturday afternoon, one which was extended with a more perfect 3ish miles with a dear one. After a morning of ball games (1 win w/ 'L' playing really well, 1 loss with 'Z' dazed during the first game with older kids), I escaped during a brief window to ride for exactly an hour. I needed to be back to go to 'Z's' futbol game, with shower time to spare. It had rained all night and morning so I took the grungy Crosscheck and rode for exactly an hour, give or take a few minutes, in and around Cherokee and Seneca. Again, nothing special, but all of it at a nice tempo. I took it easy on the hills with the episode from Thursday still in my mind, but it was just great.
When I got home 'L' was ready for a quick spin too, and this after his energetic bball game. Last weekend we had dropped off his borrowed geared kiddie Trek (from neighbor friend) b/c frankly the brake levers sucked. Chris at C'ville found some at a very nice price and they installed them. I know, I'm the only person in the cycling blogosphere who would lower him/herself to not do this work myself. We picked up the bike today during the window and 'L' wanted to try out the new levers, which were a big hit. Although he'll need a new bike come late summer (if he keeps growing), it's pleasing to take a chilled-out ride with a great kid.
Have I mentioned that it was a great 18 miles? Hope everyone else out there had a "great" experience too. Peace.
Weather: 47F, wet and drizzly
Mileage: 15 (Crosscheck) + 3 (Monocog)
January mileage: 144
Year to date: 144
No, it wasn't epic nor was it the most amazing scenery or enlightened moment. It was just a perfect way to spend an hour on a Saturday afternoon, one which was extended with a more perfect 3ish miles with a dear one. After a morning of ball games (1 win w/ 'L' playing really well, 1 loss with 'Z' dazed during the first game with older kids), I escaped during a brief window to ride for exactly an hour. I needed to be back to go to 'Z's' futbol game, with shower time to spare. It had rained all night and morning so I took the grungy Crosscheck and rode for exactly an hour, give or take a few minutes, in and around Cherokee and Seneca. Again, nothing special, but all of it at a nice tempo. I took it easy on the hills with the episode from Thursday still in my mind, but it was just great.
When I got home 'L' was ready for a quick spin too, and this after his energetic bball game. Last weekend we had dropped off his borrowed geared kiddie Trek (from neighbor friend) b/c frankly the brake levers sucked. Chris at C'ville found some at a very nice price and they installed them. I know, I'm the only person in the cycling blogosphere who would lower him/herself to not do this work myself. We picked up the bike today during the window and 'L' wanted to try out the new levers, which were a big hit. Although he'll need a new bike come late summer (if he keeps growing), it's pleasing to take a chilled-out ride with a great kid.
Have I mentioned that it was a great 18 miles? Hope everyone else out there had a "great" experience too. Peace.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Rainy Oldham Ride
(stolen from LithoDale's site)
Date: Jan 3 Sat
Weather: 51F, pouring rain
Mileage: 27.5 (Blueridge)
January mileage: 81.5
Year to date: 81.5
I'm still achy and sore- lower back, glutes, left knee- from today's fun-but-torrential outing in Oldham with LithoDale. He mapped out a nice ride for out warm afternoon, with the benefit of dropping his chillens off at his parents' house out there. I took the Blueridge b/c of the broken fender on the Bleriot, but really the BR is a better bike for trying to keep up with BeastoDale. We descended the steep 1793 and began on the bucolic Rose Island Rd. Unfortunately that meant we also had to ascend Goshen Ln. in the 3rd mile of the ride. Both 1793 and Goshen are found on Duc's excellent 100 Steep Ones. Take a look if you would like. From there the route took on its boring part on 42. If that road, in fact, was a minor one with low traffic it would be a fantastic route, but instead 42 is the main artery of Oldham so traffic can be dicey. Today the traffic wasn't but the headwind was. Coming out of Goshen Ln. I was flush with lactic acid and never really got a good rest until we turned off of 42 at around mile 10 on 393. We encountered another nice, steep, short hill coming out of a creek valley and found our most rural riding on Cedar Point and New Cut/1817. And again, these roads were rolling with occasional steep pitches out of creek valleys, and with all these I didn't have the climbing legs today to attack; I just put it in a small gear and inched up.
Sometime during Cedar Point or New Cut the heavens opened and thoroughly drenched us to the bone. I knew some rain might come so I rode prepared with wool sox, wool gloves, and my RBW rainhat. I guess that worked, or not, but it just rained and rained and rained. Even with the downpour the ride along 1817 and Covered Bridge was very, very satisfying, especially now that we had earned our tailwind. We turned toward the house via Locke Ln. and Mayo Ln. Knowing that Mayo ended in a steep fall to the river plain, I didn't mentally prepare myself for yet another nasty, short pitch in the middle of Mayo Ln. I, in fact, stopped and walked perhaps 10yds just to catch my breath and legs. That little pitch, though, was my fav of the day, with trees and leafy banks on both sides, very much a little bucolic, "old world" window on the ride. We finished up back on Rose Island and climbing up the formidible 1793. I was cranked the granny gear and kept turning the pedal, hindered a little bit by the need to keep the Brooks dry, and henceforth doing all my climbing seated. It was a very fun "little" ride. Interestingly, my computer showed 27.5 and mapmyride only about 27m, although in the past I had good luck with the computer's calibration. Times change, I guess.
Date: Jan 3 SatWeather: 51F, pouring rain
Mileage: 27.5 (Blueridge)
January mileage: 81.5
Year to date: 81.5
I'm still achy and sore- lower back, glutes, left knee- from today's fun-but-torrential outing in Oldham with LithoDale. He mapped out a nice ride for out warm afternoon, with the benefit of dropping his chillens off at his parents' house out there. I took the Blueridge b/c of the broken fender on the Bleriot, but really the BR is a better bike for trying to keep up with BeastoDale. We descended the steep 1793 and began on the bucolic Rose Island Rd. Unfortunately that meant we also had to ascend Goshen Ln. in the 3rd mile of the ride. Both 1793 and Goshen are found on Duc's excellent 100 Steep Ones. Take a look if you would like. From there the route took on its boring part on 42. If that road, in fact, was a minor one with low traffic it would be a fantastic route, but instead 42 is the main artery of Oldham so traffic can be dicey. Today the traffic wasn't but the headwind was. Coming out of Goshen Ln. I was flush with lactic acid and never really got a good rest until we turned off of 42 at around mile 10 on 393. We encountered another nice, steep, short hill coming out of a creek valley and found our most rural riding on Cedar Point and New Cut/1817. And again, these roads were rolling with occasional steep pitches out of creek valleys, and with all these I didn't have the climbing legs today to attack; I just put it in a small gear and inched up.
Sometime during Cedar Point or New Cut the heavens opened and thoroughly drenched us to the bone. I knew some rain might come so I rode prepared with wool sox, wool gloves, and my RBW rainhat. I guess that worked, or not, but it just rained and rained and rained. Even with the downpour the ride along 1817 and Covered Bridge was very, very satisfying, especially now that we had earned our tailwind. We turned toward the house via Locke Ln. and Mayo Ln. Knowing that Mayo ended in a steep fall to the river plain, I didn't mentally prepare myself for yet another nasty, short pitch in the middle of Mayo Ln. I, in fact, stopped and walked perhaps 10yds just to catch my breath and legs. That little pitch, though, was my fav of the day, with trees and leafy banks on both sides, very much a little bucolic, "old world" window on the ride. We finished up back on Rose Island and climbing up the formidible 1793. I was cranked the granny gear and kept turning the pedal, hindered a little bit by the need to keep the Brooks dry, and henceforth doing all my climbing seated. It was a very fun "little" ride. Interestingly, my computer showed 27.5 and mapmyride only about 27m, although in the past I had good luck with the computer's calibration. Times change, I guess.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Eastern Meander
Date: Jan 2 Fri
Weather: 45F
Mileage: 22 (LHT)
January mileage: 54
Year to date: 54
This is the first post on a new blog I've decided to create; in fact, I decided to create it on said ride today. My first blog, tex's luavull cycling, needs something fresh. While I do offer some interesting insight herenthere, I think my readers sometimes get tired of reading, "I commuted today, yada yada yada." As such, this blog is intended to be as much for me as for anybody. I'll jot down my rides and commutes and occasionally offer some extra nuggets of fun. My other blog will meander more in the direction of advocacy, or at least as a compendium of bike-related information about the Louisville area. If I undertake a particularly adventurous local ride, I'll blog there b/c I might have found something interesting for the local cycling community. and that's that.
Today's ride was slow and meandering, beginning in Cherokee (and being passed by some nice roadies on 'cross bikes, one of which motioned some road debris for me, Thanks), then through random streets in St. Matthews. From there I decided that I needed to see how the other half lives, so I made my way paralleling Lexington rd. to take in the big houses this time of year. They are so opulent and impressive, but I can't imagine changing my life enough to own one. I don't want to; I just like them aesthetically.
My route took me down to the Beargrass Trail and downtown by the ballpark. There I did a little reconnoitering @ Blue Mountain Coffeehouse. In mentally planing the first River City Cycling Society ride I thought of place to eat downtown and this one came to mind. I had never visited it, so today I stopped by for a casual coffee and visit. From 1st impressions it seems a little over-priced and "hoity-toity" for a bunch of sweaty cyclists, but it does serve coffee and snacks and is downtown. Unfortunately it is not open on Sundays right now, so that's another strike against it for a Sunday RCCS ride.
From there, with coffee mostly drunk, I headed home via the Highlands and the B'town alley before finishing with a spirited mid-traffic big-ring hammer down B'town. Damn, I love to outspeed the cars there. It was a very lowkey, relaxed ride and a perfect way to "do therapy" for 2 hours. And as with some previous ride thinking, I'm getting closer to materializing the RCCS concept. All systems go.
Weather: 45F
Mileage: 22 (LHT)
January mileage: 54
Year to date: 54
This is the first post on a new blog I've decided to create; in fact, I decided to create it on said ride today. My first blog, tex's luavull cycling, needs something fresh. While I do offer some interesting insight herenthere, I think my readers sometimes get tired of reading, "I commuted today, yada yada yada." As such, this blog is intended to be as much for me as for anybody. I'll jot down my rides and commutes and occasionally offer some extra nuggets of fun. My other blog will meander more in the direction of advocacy, or at least as a compendium of bike-related information about the Louisville area. If I undertake a particularly adventurous local ride, I'll blog there b/c I might have found something interesting for the local cycling community. and that's that.
Today's ride was slow and meandering, beginning in Cherokee (and being passed by some nice roadies on 'cross bikes, one of which motioned some road debris for me, Thanks), then through random streets in St. Matthews. From there I decided that I needed to see how the other half lives, so I made my way paralleling Lexington rd. to take in the big houses this time of year. They are so opulent and impressive, but I can't imagine changing my life enough to own one. I don't want to; I just like them aesthetically.
My route took me down to the Beargrass Trail and downtown by the ballpark. There I did a little reconnoitering @ Blue Mountain Coffeehouse. In mentally planing the first River City Cycling Society ride I thought of place to eat downtown and this one came to mind. I had never visited it, so today I stopped by for a casual coffee and visit. From 1st impressions it seems a little over-priced and "hoity-toity" for a bunch of sweaty cyclists, but it does serve coffee and snacks and is downtown. Unfortunately it is not open on Sundays right now, so that's another strike against it for a Sunday RCCS ride.
From there, with coffee mostly drunk, I headed home via the Highlands and the B'town alley before finishing with a spirited mid-traffic big-ring hammer down B'town. Damn, I love to outspeed the cars there. It was a very lowkey, relaxed ride and a perfect way to "do therapy" for 2 hours. And as with some previous ride thinking, I'm getting closer to materializing the RCCS concept. All systems go.
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