IT'S CLOSE TO THE SEASON.

No I have not lost my mind. You are seeing window paintings.   For you that don't know this I am a professional window painter. And towards the end of October everyone is going to start calling me at once, that is a good thing.   But it really cuts into cycling time.  So much in fact I probably not going to be doing any cycling, because I'll be driving all over the place to paint windows.  All I'll be doing is staring at window at arm length with a paint brush.    Hopefully I'll be able to get a few rides in here and their.   Each season is different.  Last season I felt like super ninja window painter.  When the season was over I was so wired I still wanted to paint something anything.   So if I disappear this is what I'm doing. 

   

9/13/2016 7.9 miles

Rode with hubby today  7.9 miles in 33 minutes.  Kind of windy but other wise the weather was great.    Had one women on the path look back at us and instead of getting out of the way, she had a death with and step right in front of us.    Shacking my head.  So we had to come to a full stop.   Hubby was speed demon today, he did not ride yesterday so I had to peddle hard to keep up with him.   

11/12/2016 15.36 miles

 Great ride today.  Miss my hubby, but he just has to much home work. :(     
Felt really good today.   In fact so good I went up the hill 5x.   No dogs,  only a few people on foot and the road was blocked off from cars so it was really great.   I figured out that going up the hill 5x is about almost 2 miles.   Cool beans. 
Well I figured out the 25 miles hour mystery.  It must have happen was when I was going down hill peddling on the way out of the valley.  But it did it just for a second.  But I didn't peddle as hard today so my max speed was more normal as you'll see below.
15.36 miles

 1 hour and 9 minutes.














Max Speed 22.5

Average speed 13.0

9/11/2016 11.96 miles

 Had a little bout of virtego.  So this week I took it really easy until it past. It's gone so back on the bike. When we went to get the bike, mine had a flat, so while hubby fixed it I did some watering.    And I got to ride with my hubby.  Grumpy hubby LOL  I wanted to take his picture and he was like less with the snappy and more with the peddle.

Ok why I didn't take a picture, I have no idea, but I decided to do some hill climbing to day.  The gate was closed so no cars, sweet!   Make it around the bend going down hill and it's a dog-plosion.   There must of been at least 15 to 16 dogs off the lease and around 25 people blocking the middle of the road.  I was like you got to be kidding.   They have the right to be their too, but geeze when  you see some one on a bike come down the hill really slow may be like move to the side.  Nope not one person moved for me. They all saw me and just had that blank expression.  I had to come to a stop and walked my way thought the maze of people and dogs.  And even when you go slow dogs will chase your bike, I was lucky only one dog had the hankering for bike.  Got to the bottom and look back and was like really.   Sigh, luckily the biggest knot of dogs and people disperse and had access to a clear ride up to the top.  I did it a second time and was like ok two time is enough lets go.   










 Miles

 Average speed.

 Time

Huh?   25.2 miles an hour for max speed.  Were was I. ?  I know the whole route it must have been  just for a few seconds when I was not paying attention.  But I assure you not for a full minute.      Oh wait yeah I did 11 miles at 25 miles the whole way.  LOL Not. 

9/3/2016 35.11 miles

 Really great ride today and the weather was really nice.   And the best part got to ride with hubby.  :)     We paced our selves this time and tried to maintain a steady pace. 

35.11 miles

Maximum Speed 21.8

 Glowing Average 12.1










2 hour and 52 minutes.   

In Durham we stopped off at the local store and Chris went in to get some gatorade and he came back out with a new flavor of Cliff bar.   Chocolate Peanut Butter filled Nut Butter.    So we stopped off at our favorite place to take a break and tried the new bars.   Too our surprise they has less calories, so that was already a plus with us.   In order to try or find new cliff bar flavors, one must ride exceeding 30 to 40 miles. lol   But I can not wait to try the rest of the flavors.    

Chocolate and Hazelnut butter, Coconut Almond butter & Peanut Butter.  

On the way out to the air port a man deck out in his cycling gear came up beside me so close I could have reach over and picked his nose. It startled me and I jumped.   Too close buddy, way too close. 

 

On our rides we encounter lot's and lot's of dogs.  Some leashed some not, some behind fences some in window.  The funniest thing is when their behind fences and all you hear is the barking then wham!  The dog or dog's momentarily stop barking to recover from hitting what ever type of fence they live behind and then resume barking like they never hit it.     This is why I am a cat person, cat have discernment, dog don't. 

 We ride thought the Almond fields to Durham and it's really cool to see all the trees loaded with almonds or all the almonds on the ground ready for harvest.    If only I could have a vacuum on my back. Then as I ride I could suck them up and no one would every no.   Ok well no, but it would be nice.  ha    

                                                                                   

9/2/2016 13.12 miles

YA I have a new Speedometer.  But unlike the other one this one is really hard to take a picture of. I had to take a lot of pictures just to try to get a clear shot.   A lot better ride today.

13.12 miles

Maximum Speed  23.4   No I did not keep it very long, just only a few seconds.   

 Here is my average speed.  :D  Very proud of my self and my hubby, he didn't ride with me today, but I know he can keep up with me.
 14.1 is my average speed. To obtain this I have to keep my speed between 17 miles and hour to 20 miles and hour.   Pant pant pant.    I'm still shaking my head that I powered though all my bike ride with a broken axle.    

 54 minutes

And here is the cream of the crop.   This was my average speed for exactly 2.7 miles.  This is keeping my speed between 19 and 20 miles and hour.


Ok I had the sqeee moment on the end of my bike ride and I was going a lot slower.  Pa pa quail came out of the bushes with newly hatch baby quail.  Their so tiny. Like mini fluffy m&m's with legs.  

MINI BONK! 11.57 miles/ 9 miles

Chris did 9 miles I did 11 miles.

I had a mini bonk, not a full blown bonk.  And what was horrible I was feeling so pumped on the first half of the ride, like I could take on the world.   Today was one of those days.  First of all we had an unexpected emergency lunch that was not planned for.  "Heck let have a sandwich " I said what could go wrong?   Note: Chris and I do eat bread every once and a while, but not as a staple.  So we ate our sandwich.   We also had a bit more food, before the ride.   Like I said before hubby swimming in home work so he decided to take off ahead of me because I was installing my new speedometer.  :)   He accidently take off with everything water and cliff bars.   I completely spacing, because my mind is on making my speedometer work with a friend who is helping me.  I take off all happy and ready to take on the world.  My speedometer is working great and I'm flying between 18 and 20 mph.  I get all the way to Horse Shoe Lake and I can feel it coming on and then the first thing my mind goes to Ahhh crap that stupid sandwich we had and then my second though Uhhggg Chris has the Cliff bars.   Noooooo!   So I put my tail between my leg and peddle home like I've just road 40 miles, my energy was going and going fast.     Usually I good for a hour before I need more energy, nope not this time.   And no I didn't Bonk as bad as the guy in the picture, thus mini bonk.    As soon as I got home, we both become ravenous salad beast.  Nom nom nom.   A salad with veggies and fruit does 10x more than a sandwich with all the fixings.  

On my way up their was a guy with roller blades of all things jumping up on the handrails going down some stairs.  WTF!   No helmet no shin guards nothing.   Crazy!  

Another day another ride.  Tomorrow will be better.