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Hey, it's cheaper than a new top-of-the-line Aethos.
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My Tuesday ride friends are all out of town on various riding adventures so I rode alone today on my old mtb loop. It was socked in with fog/marine layer so I got soaked on the climb. Put on everything I had for the descent but still got a little cold. A long time since I felt that sensation but it's supposed to go back up near 100 this weekend.
The Strava talk reminded me of being chastised this past Saturday by a guy for not having electronics on my bike. "Oh, just get a Garmin, at least, because yada yada yada". Told him I wasn't interested and he was shocked. "What about your heartrate monitor"? Told him I didn't have one of those, either. "WHAT???" He didn't believe me until I insisted.
Sunday I did my 2 hour spin around the bike path and there is a little park with water and bathrooms and I like to stop there and sit on a bench and have a snack. Another geezer was beginning his ride and he stopped to inform me that I should just keep going because if I sat for a while it would be harder to get going again. He looked at my bike and said something like "You probably know this already". I wanted to tell him I would be ok but he wouldn't shut up until he left.
The Strava talk reminded me of being chastised this past Saturday by a guy for not having electronics on my bike. "Oh, just get a Garmin, at least, because yada yada yada". Told him I wasn't interested and he was shocked. "What about your heartrate monitor"? Told him I didn't have one of those, either. "WHAT???" He didn't believe me until I insisted.
Sunday I did my 2 hour spin around the bike path and there is a little park with water and bathrooms and I like to stop there and sit on a bench and have a snack. Another geezer was beginning his ride and he stopped to inform me that I should just keep going because if I sat for a while it would be harder to get going again. He looked at my bike and said something like "You probably know this already". I wanted to tell him I would be ok but he wouldn't shut up until he left.
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We are still celebrating Christmas, just in a different manner this year.
Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).
So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.
Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).
So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.
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09-28-21, 03:10 PM
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My Tuesday ride friends are all out of town on various riding adventures so I rode alone today on my old mtb loop. It was socked in with fog/marine layer so I got soaked on the climb. Put on everything I had for the descent but still got a little cold. A long time since I felt that sensation but it's supposed to go back up near 100 this weekend.
The Strava talk reminded me of being chastised this past Saturday by a guy for not having electronics on my bike. "Oh, just get a Garmin, at least, because yada yada yada". Told him I wasn't interested and he was shocked. "What about your heartrate monitor"? Told him I didn't have one of those, either. "WHAT???" He didn't believe me until I insisted.
Sunday I did my 2 hour spin around the bike path and there is a little park with water and bathrooms and I like to stop there and sit on a bench and have a snack. Another geezer was beginning his ride and he stopped to inform me that I should just keep going because if I sat for a while it would be harder to get going again. He looked at my bike and said something like "You probably know this already". I wanted to tell him I would be ok but he wouldn't shut up until he left.
The Strava talk reminded me of being chastised this past Saturday by a guy for not having electronics on my bike. "Oh, just get a Garmin, at least, because yada yada yada". Told him I wasn't interested and he was shocked. "What about your heartrate monitor"? Told him I didn't have one of those, either. "WHAT???" He didn't believe me until I insisted.
Sunday I did my 2 hour spin around the bike path and there is a little park with water and bathrooms and I like to stop there and sit on a bench and have a snack. Another geezer was beginning his ride and he stopped to inform me that I should just keep going because if I sat for a while it would be harder to get going again. He looked at my bike and said something like "You probably know this already". I wanted to tell him I would be ok but he wouldn't shut up until he left.
* I'm still a data junkie, so when I rode without it on the bars, I stuffed it in my jersey.
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09-28-21, 03:11 PM
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We are still celebrating Christmas, just in a different manner this year.
Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).
So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.
Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).
So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.
09-28-21, 03:13 PM
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You spent several posts attempting to demonstrate that the distance from you to any ocean was too large for you to be on ANY coast. Maps and all.
WRT 'assigning' people from the Central and Mountain time zones, maybe we should let them choose whose team they want to be on?
WRT 'assigning' people from the Central and Mountain time zones, maybe we should let them choose whose team they want to be on?
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The Strava talk reminded me of being chastised this past Saturday by a guy for not having electronics on my bike. "Oh, just get a Garmin, at least, because yada yada yada". Told him I wasn't interested and he was shocked. "What about your heartrate monitor"? Told him I didn't have one of those, either. "WHAT???" He didn't believe me until I insisted.
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I doubt that would do any good. I outweigh her by 75-80 pounds and she doesn't have near the health problems. 
Seriously, she's very savvy about bikes and what she likes, make that picky about bikes. I'd have to drive or fly to Colorado so she could go hands-on with it before she would commit to buying one. Charts and graphs and a three-part harmony just wouldn't cut it for her.
Seriously, she's very savvy about bikes and what she likes, make that picky about bikes. I'd have to drive or fly to Colorado so she could go hands-on with it before she would commit to buying one. Charts and graphs and a three-part harmony just wouldn't cut it for her.
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We are still celebrating Christmas, just in a different manner this year.
Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).
So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.
Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).
So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.
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I doubt that would do any good. I outweigh her by 75-80 pounds and she doesn't have near the health problems.
Seriously, she's very savvy about bikes and what she likes, make that picky about bikes. I'd have to drive or fly to Colorado so she could go hands-on with it before she would commit to buying one. Charts and graphs and a three-part harmony just wouldn't cut it for her.
Seriously, she's very savvy about bikes and what she likes, make that picky about bikes. I'd have to drive or fly to Colorado so she could go hands-on with it before she would commit to buying one. Charts and graphs and a three-part harmony just wouldn't cut it for her.
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09-28-21, 03:20 PM
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I was in Excel a few years when they were closing out the Cervelos at the end of the season. There was someone there from Wyoming on a test ride.
Fun trip for you and the wife.
Fun trip for you and the wife.
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You don't have to convince me but Mrs.Trainsnorter might have a different view.
Long ago when I was married to a cyclist we alternated N+1. She didn't play by the rule though when she gifted herself a new Juliana full squish bike just before she left. She stole my turn.
Long ago when I was married to a cyclist we alternated N+1. She didn't play by the rule though when she gifted herself a new Juliana full squish bike just before she left. She stole my turn.
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That is not my recollection either. I recollect him insisting he is quasi-east coast, even though he is clearly land locked like a mf.
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