Weekly Ride Report: 1/25/10 - 1/31/10

Date	Course	Type	Distance	Ride Time	Climb	Max Altitude	Max Speed	Avg Speed	Odometer
01/26/10 09:00 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	17.9	01:03:40	820	1030	28.3	16.87	16975.3
01/27/10 09:30 AM	Rose Bowl Hill Repeats	Climb	17.4	01:05:56	1110	946	30.6	15.83	16992.7
01/28/10 10:00 AM	ToC Circuits	Climb	16.5	01:03:00	1293	951	36.5	15.71	17009.2
01/29/10 09:30 AM	Glenoaks	Climb	17.1	01:13:41	1612	1569	28.6	13.92	17026.3
01/30/10 07:30 AM	Pasadena - Glendora	Climb	62.5	04:03:43	3560	1406	34.1	15.39	17088.8
	Weekly Totals		131.4	08:30:00	8395			15.46

Remarks: As you can see in that last entry, a group of us climbed almost 3600 feet over about 60 miles. At our post-ride meal, one of our group was trying to think of a way to impress his teen-age children after punishing his body for 5 hours (their first question is always "why would you do that?"). So we thought of ways to analogize that large number. Suggestions were: 3 and a half Eiffel Towers; 3 Empire State Buildings; and 1 and a half Dubai Towers. Really, that Dubai Tower is a beast at half a mile tall!

Weekly Ride Report: 1/18/10 - 1/24/10

Date	Course	Type	Distance	Ride Time	Climb	Max Altitude	Max Speed	Avg Speed	Odometer
01/19/10 09:10 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.4	01:00:35	666	965	26.8	16.24	16873.3
01/22/10 09:45 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.3	01:01:25	669	949	28.3	15.92	16889.6
01/23/10 08:30 AM	Washington – Kaldi's	Rolling	20.5	01:25:09	1105	1067	26.7	14.45	16910.1
01/24/10 07:45 AM	La Cañada - Arcadia - South Pasadena	Climb	46.8	03:06:12	3714	1431	39.6	15.08	16956.9
	Weekly Totals		100	06:33:21	6154			15.25

Latte Art – Cycle Edition

I’ve posted before about free-pour latte art, and there were some very interesting variations on leaves and ferns and fronds. Now, I can’t vouch for how this latte imagery was created, but it does mash together the two eponymous themes for this blog.

 

via Riding Pretty

Beat the Rain: Chirp, Chirp

Even though we in Southern California are supposed to have seven straight days of rain, I was able to get a ride in this morning. How did I know that I would have a two hour window, when I saw threatening thunder clouds, and it had stopped raining for several hours already? Wasn't I tempting fate here? No, because I just opened my ears and heard the little birdies advertising their territory. Chirping birds (or songbirds) make their little bit of land known to the other birds around by jumping on to the longer branches and make as much noise as possible. It also means they think other birds are flying around and might be trying to steal some drowned worms in their own territory. Oh, we can't have that, now can we, little birdies? So, if you hear birds chirping, it means their instincts tell them it's safe to perch in the open sky, and that rain isn't going to be forcing them to huddle near their nests for at least an hour, and I heard the birds still chirping when I got back from my hour long ride. That's how I knew I would be safe from new rain: a little birdie told me.

Weekly Ride Report: 1/11/10 - 1/17/10

Date	Course	Type	Distance	Ride Time	Climb	Max Altitude	Max Speed	Avg Speed	Odometer
01/11/10 09:00 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.7	00:59:02	642	949	27.2	16.97	16723.8
01/12/10 10:15 AM	Rose Bowl Hill Repeats	Climb	17.6	01:07:05	1153	950	29.7	15.74	16741.4
01/13/10 10:00 AM	ToC Circuits	Climb	16.6	01:04:42	1227	946	34.1	15.39	16758
01/14/10 10:00 AM	Lida – Altadena	Climb	19.4	01:17:55	1703	1390	34.6	14.94	16777.4
01/15/10 09:30 AM	Glenoaks	Climb	17.2	01:09:51	1611	1253	36.5	14.77	16794.6
01/16/10 08:00 AM	New York Dr. - Encanto Park	Rolling	27.3	01:50:42	1855	1160	37.1	14.8	16821.9
01/17/10 08:00 AM	Palos Verdes Loop	Climb	35	02:23:25	2950	1461	38.6	14.64	16856.9
	Weekly Totals		149.8	09:52:42	11141			15.16

Weekly Ride Report: 1/4/10 - 1/10/10

Date	Course	Type	Distance	Ride Time	Climb	Max Altitude	Max Speed	Avg Speed	Odometer
01/04/10 09:45 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.3	01:01:24	671	907	32.2	15.93	16635.2
01/05/10 10:15 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.4	00:58:34	685	916	28.7	16.8	16651.6
01/06/10 10:00 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.8	00:58:47	687	934	28.3	17.15	16668.4
01/07/10 08:10 AM	Huntington Library Laps	Rolling	22	01:32:25	1613	980	29.2	14.28	16690.4
01/08/10 10:05 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.7	00:58:30	640	946	27.7	17.13	16707.1
	Weekly Totals		88.2	05:29:40	4296			16.05

Weekly Ride Report: 12/28/09 - 1/3/10

Date	Course	Type	Distance	Ride Time	Climb	Max Altitude	Max Speed	Avg Speed	Odometer
12/30/09 09:30 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.3	01:02:47	663	965	32.2	15.58	16602.6
12/31/09 09:35 AM	Rose Bowl Laps	Flat	16.3	01:02:05	645	956	33.5	15.75	16618.9
	Weekly Totals		32.6	02:04:52	1308			15.84