25.74 Miles. Great day to ride.

Great ride today with hubby, kind of muddy and a bit chilly, we were bundled up so no big deal.  

Did I mention I love my new bike.  I road 12.12 miles the first time through the park with hubby.   

I have no prior experience on a road bike, but I can tell you this much this, is an awesome bike, it rides so easy, I could easily see my self doing 50 to 70 miles on this bike.   My first ride picking it up and going home with it, I was so tense and my feet and legs and hands did hurt a bit, but today nothing hurt.  However by watching videos I do need to move my bars up maybe a tad.
This bike ride so much smoother than my hubbies bike I had to keep slow down continuously, so he could catch up.  Chris bike is the exact same model of my bike for men and it's really heavy as is my first bike, but that is not a bad thing.   The first 12.12 miles were so easy and smooth I got home and was like, did I just go for a bike ride or do nothing?                                                                                     The  

12.12 miles really felt so easy that I decided to go for another ride, but this time on my trusty steed'et.  (female)   I know have dub the pain cave bike.  This is the bike that I want to get my heart pumping and give my legs a great work out.   Note: I don't want to say old bike, but cause it's my first bike and it means a lot to me and dubbing it the pain cave, reminds me that their is still some more awesome riding I can do on it. 

I add on to today's ride 1 hill climb on the new bike and 4 hill climbs on the Pain Cave.  I do realize now I'm going to need a lot more practice on the new bike.  Changing gears on the Airen 1 is night and day compared to my Pain Cave ;)   On the Airen 1 I have 3 options for holding one and only 2 access the breaks.  I caught my self braking with my other bike brakes, invisible brakes.  LoL   That was a eye opener.   The Airen 1 is making me a lot more aware of  my surroundings, even more so.  I really got to pay attention, because if need be I got to move my hand to the breaks and fast.    With the Pain Cave, the breaks were always right there.  

Their is nothing more nerve wracking than having a unleashed, (luckily friendly dog), but never less too happy and go lucky.  Started wagging his tail and trying to get some attention from me on my bike.  Yikes!  That was the beginning of the ride.  That's not all then on my Pain Cave towards the middle of the ride, I almost creamed a little dog. :(   Uhgg!  Rolling eyes.
I grew up with dogs, you think I'd be a dog person.  Nope! I'm a Cat person.    Close your eye's if your a dog person, but this is a observation I have noticed for a long time.  When you see people with out dogs they always walk in a nice predictable line.   Dog people are all over the place and kind of reminds me of those old Family Circus cartoons when the children would be tracked with dashes all over the front yard and what not. 

And one more thing, I now am scared of leaves.  Why, well my bike tires are road bike tires and leaves are very slippery and their were lot's of leaves and mud.  So the whole first part of the ride I was playing avoid the leaves, because leaves hid things.  One the second part of the ride, I hit a big stick with my Pain Cave bike, I was thinking to my self it that would have been the other bike would I have been able to get out of it.    So like I said, I hyper aware, don't want to crash on this bike.  


And after I was done riding it I gave it a bath, with out spraying it.  Use a tooth brush to get the leaves and mud out and then dried it off with a towl, put it to bed, read it a bed time story.  No I'm not that psychotic.  LOL






Did I mention lot's and lot's of trees down in the park and lot's of flooding from the rain.