44 miles today on the first day of summer!

They've been doing that for awhile on mine. I do have a power meter on my road bike, but not on my gravel bike or either of my mtbs. As can be expected, Strava's estimation is pretty meaningless.

Climbing day. 4100’ and 52 miles. Lots of different views. Two are from the summit of Newcastle with a 17% climb over 1/4 mile to get there.


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Bellevue and Lk Washington
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Seattle, looking over Mercer Island, Lk Wa and Salish Sea
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Lake Sammamish
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White things
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19 miles. Wet, very very wet miles. Dipping the chain for a hawt wax job, after I clean everything up.

How wet was it? 😂

rooster tailing it, making me look like a seedude.

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Set my personal best for 40k and got a new best VO2 max.

45 miles on a sunny 80F day in the PNW

We have been hammered by rain over the last 2 weeks and getting outside for a ride has been a pain. So over the last week, I got in 175 inside, but I snuck outside between storm cells today for a quick 15 miles.

34 miles in paradise. (Jackson Hole/Grand Teton National Park)

Weather was perfect, and the whole ride was my idea of cycling bliss.


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97 Miles. Scattered with unforecasted rain.

Managed to get a PR on an `11mile stretch I have been trying to beat since 2021. Finally nailed it by 20 secs.


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75 +/- 3 miles.
gotta remember to resume the paused button.

miserable ride today. The humidity was off the chart due to all the rain lately and the clear skies, so the sun is burning off the moisture in the ground. Did 45 early before the temps got over 90.

I hammered out a half century with the heat index hiking its way toward one hundred ten degrees. Stopped at the halfway point to snap a pic of a sunflower field. Left foot firmly planted in a fire ant bed as I did.

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Paul Barnard , stepping in fire ants midway through a 110 degree (equivalent) day is not my idea of a pleasant ride. Did you eat a bag of flaming hot Cheetos too?

A quick 20 with 1200’ of up

Virtually using an APP, or IRL? :giver:. Zero, but I just recently rediscovered bike riding and am getting in alot of miles.

Got the road bike together and gave the gravel bike a break for a change. I was a bit tired from previous days' workouts, so I opted for a "flat" route...or at least as flat as it gets around here.

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Got the climbing in today. The snowpack was amazing this year, the lakes are still frozen over above 8k'.

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Only time for a short ride today so made it count. Did 19 with 1500’ climbing. Did 1000 of it in a 3 mile climb ranging from 8 to 15%. Ooof! Got a 4th fastest overall on a segment I didn’t know existed. Next tine will have to haul @$$ and move up a few places.


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Lake Alice
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Short cut between two climbs

30-spot.

Did a 40 with 2000’ climbing around a local lake. Did a mix of tarmac, gravel and MUPs. Managed 15 PRs which was a good day out. Legs are toast, so tomorrow is a gardening day.


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Lake Sammamish

^ !!!!! that orange stupid cone!

Yeah. Struck me that way too. It had no reason to be there unless it came from a parallel universe.

39 miles for me today. Rode into Portland to meet some coworkers for my 2 year anniversary lunch. Met them at the office, we rode to lunch. Back to office, and then I had to make the trip back home.

41 miles on a very nice sunny day.

30 miles. Almost taken out by a raccoon today running in front of me while doing 27 down a hill (me, not the raccoon). Missed it by a 10th of a second.
Another rider coming the other way saw it, shook his head and said ‘amazing’. I am one lucky f.

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Lake Washington

Humid, slightly smokey, & a lot of hydration 108 miles.

65 miles before the heat and humidity really started to take it's toll. Was shooting for 80, but had to call it early. I started at 6:30 and by 8:30 once the sun got higher in the sky, the heat index was almost 100... just oppressive.