Lynda

January 2007 - Posts

• This One is for you Shane!

  Cause your products rock... I've got Cardio in ma belly and Drip in my bottle in this pic. Today was full on fine. Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 29 2007, 08:56 PM by lynda with no comments

• This One is for you Shane!

  Cause your products rock... I've got Cardio in ma belly and Drip in my bottle in this pic. Today was full on fine.   Two laps on the Jem and lap #2 was a PR for me. Steve came along for the first lap. Pink, Lily Allen, Girls Aloud, Arctic Monkeys and The Kooks came along for the second. Posted Jan 29 2007, 08:56 PM by Lynda

• Girls Ride

  It wasn't so deserty in the desert today for me and the girls. I picked all this up on the road between Danish Ranch and Cottonwood - don't go up there for a while. It's the evil clay muck that doesn't fall off with a little water treatment - I actually had to scrub it - yuk! Pink, Lily Allen, Girls Aloud and Bananarama came out riding with me today. Bananarama got shelled quickly and they'll not be coming riding with me again. Girls Aloud and Pink are good riding partners. We were flying until we hit the muck. Go girls! Ya gotta be tough to get away with the pink cammo look.   Tomorrow is 2 laps on the Jem with Steve. I'm thinking I should maybe put some Enya on the mp3 for tomorrow... Posted Jan 28 2007, 10:05 PM by Lynda

• Girls Ride

  It wasn't so deserty in the desert today for me and the girls. I… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 28 2007, 10:05 PM by lynda with no comments

• Chammy Time

  Yesterday went something like this: Feed kidz - eat - drop kidz off at school - ride big - pick kidz up from school - bake brownies - feed kidz - eat more - ride more - eat more. Ride day tally was 300 TSS. Calorie tally = I'm scared to add it up but I ate big too. Simple kinda day. The high hit 62F today - perfect for spending most of it in a chammy. Near the end of my first ride I ran into Kris and KC Holley and had fun riding with them for a … Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 27 2007, 10:01 AM by lynda with no comments

• Chammy Time

  Yesterday went something like this: Feed kidz - eat - drop kidz off at school - ride big - pick kidz up from school - bake brownies - feed kidz - eat more - ride more - eat more. Ride day tally was 300 TSS. Calorie tally = I'm scared to add it up but I ate big too. Simple kinda day. The high hit 62F today - perfect for spending most of it in a chammy. Near the end of my first ride I ran into KC and Chris Holley and had fun riding with them for a little bit. It is always a big bonus to share some trail time with folks who love riding as much as I do. The MadDog team is down in St George for a little warm weather riding this weekend and I hooked up with them for a night ride over on the Bear Claw Poppy trail. There were seven of us. Outside of a race I've never ridden at night with so many folks. It was awesome. I was first down the drops and it was really cool to look back up and see all the twinkling light winding their way down.   Doesn't make for such a good photos tho'. I was styling my Cree3 light and got plenty comments about the sheer volume of blinding light it was putting out. I got back home from the night ride after 10 pm and stepped up to the challenge of eating all of the cereal available in the house! Binge city! My New Years resolution to lose 5 lbs is right on track - I've dropped 1 lb per week since January 1st so only 1 lb left to my Old Pueblo race weight goal. It's perfect time for a binge. Today is off the bike but busy with lots of kidz activities. We have to make more brownies today - there's none left from yesterdays batch :-o Currently Wesley is disgusted at the poor GameBoy skills Emma and I have. Mine are marginally better than Emmas. He is so horrified at the situation he can't even watch us playing it and keeps having to take it off us to "get us to the next level". There is a reason it is called GameBOY... Posted Jan 27 2007, 10:01 AM by Lynda

• St George Smog

  Beauty day today. Ticked off 61 miles with 55 miles of that on single-track. Fabby. High of 48F. Nice and calm after yesterday's silly windy day. This winter is the first time I have noticed a smog cloud hanging over the St George valley. Progress, growth and development I guess. Looking westward away from St George. Gorgeous deep blue sky today. Looking east at the smog haze over the city.   I rode the same trail today as I did last week - both times with the Ergomo clocking the data. Tomorrow I'll spend some time looking at the files side-by-side to get more of a handle on how repeatable the Ergomo data recording is off-road. At first glance it looks pretty solid. I made quite a few suspension changes to the bike between rides - added 20 psi to the rear shock, took 10 psi out of the SID negative chamber and added 10 psi to the positive chamber. The bike felt much better today and I was able to ride some of the techy climbs and drops I was flubbing around on last week. So I was more efficient this week. The Ergomo recorded 354 TSS last week and 334 TSS this week. I did miss out a 1.5 mile section of jeep road this week. I'll have to pick out of the file if I was more efficient this week or is the Ergomo wavering. The Ergomo altitude recording is wishy-washy. With the same settings it recorded I was riding at different elevations and accumulated a different amount of elevation gain over the ride. It is kinda cool to look at the elevation graph profile and it does help me pinpoint where I was on the trail when looking at the power file. Posted Jan 22 2007, 11:49 PM by Lynda

• Ergomo Steps Up

  My cell phone died a few days ago. I can't even check my messages. So if you want to say hi or go for a ride call me at home or e mail always works. If you left me a message - I haven't heard it... After whining about the cheesy mount on the Ergomo the Ergomo boyz stepped up and sent me a new different design - complimentary too. No sneaky credit card on file swiping ala SRM. This mount feels solid. I'll take it out for a few hours on the trail tomorrow. Training is going well and today is another drill it day on the road. Yesterday my hall pass started too late to catch the group ride so I put down some healthy four minute intervals on my own with the help of some surround sound. My mp3 has been hard to access in the usual cleavage storage spot with all these winter layers I've been wearing. Wesley had his 7th birthday party on Friday. 12 wee boyz. Mania galaxy. Every photo from the party is out of focus as they were moving so fast. Cleaning up their mess took me most of Saturday morning. My mistake - serving blue Gatorade. That stuff ranged far and high up the walls - impressively so. Being a mom is great most of the time but the repetitious and thankless mom chores are not so fun. Cleaning walls fits that bill. One of my daily mom chores is turning this:   Into this: Thats one of the fun ones tho' often revieving notice and thanks. Now I'm off to finish laundry, put away clothes, vacuum and feed the kinders again. My hall pass starts at 1pm today and my road bike is gonna get some more drilling done. Tomorrow is mtb love day. Posted Jan 21 2007, 12:04 PM by Lynda

• Ergomo Steps Up

  After whining about the cheesy mount on the Ergomo the Ergomo boyz stepped up and sent me a new different design - complimentary too. No sneaky credit card on file swiping ala SRM. Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 21 2007, 12:04 PM by lynda with no comments

• Desert Bunnies and Coyotes

  I wanted to do a night ride but not be out too late so set off as soon as it was dark. Rolling up the trail it didn't seem dark at all so I switched off my light and yup - it was pitch. My new Cree3 light Dave made for me is the brightest thing ever. I scorched the eyeballs off a few coyotes and rabbits while I was out. I creep myself out riding in the dark solo. I keep thinking things are chasing me and want to eat me. The mp3 helps a bit with this. If I do get eaten then at least 'll b… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 19 2007, 04:49 PM by lynda with no comments

• Desert Bunnies and Coyotes

  I wanted to do a night ride but not be out too late so set off as soon as it was dark. Rolling up the trail it didn't seem dark at all so I switched off my light and yup - it was pitch. My new Cree3 light Dave made for me is the brightest thing ever. I scorched the eyeballs off a few coyotes and rabbits while I was out. I creep myself out riding in the dark solo. I keep thinking things are chasing me and want to eat me. The mp3 helps a bit with this. If I do get eaten then at least 'll be enjoying some good tunes. I have to be careful and not play anything with chasing and panting type noises in the song - that freaks me out real good. The Cree3 is so bright I can scan half the county for creatures and it has me rubber necking all over the place. I tested run times yesterday alongside my Light and Motion light. My L & M is supposed to run for 3.5 hours but wimped out after 2.5 hours. My Cree3 shone bright for 5.5 hours -wow! It is lighter too. What a 24-hr weapon... After sitting on my ass for a few days being a slave to my TSB my power meter is being kind to me putting out big watts with very little effort. Feelin' the pedalin' love today... Posted Jan 19 2007, 04:49 PM by Lynda

• Desert Beavers and Horses

  I luv living in the desert. Sometimes I wonder how I came to be born in Scotland because I'm a desert gal thru and thru. I never ever tire of climbing up to high points, listening to the breeze and admiring the view. This is a high point round these parts. I love the 360 view from up here. I can name all the peaks and point out trails in every direction. I feel like I know this little piece of terra firma pretty well. Yesterday I was out rallying around on my mtb for a while and discovered the elusive trail beavers have busy beavers. I rode about a mile of brand new trail. It petered out but obviously some little trail beaver has a route planned. It was sweet, really sweet. So I know this area better than most and still stumble on the occasional treat of fresh trails. Whomever built the section I rode yesterday is doing a darn fine job - keep on with it buddy :-) Very nice. This is my Ergomo tally for the day. Power savvy geeks can figure out how long I was out for and how hard I rode. While I was out I spooked a horse. I thought I gave it enough room but I was wrong and I'm sorry about that. I'd rather share the trail with a hundred horses pooping all over the place than a single ATV. I was up on the Barrel Roll trail. I saw the horse and rider about half a mile ahead. It was beautiful, calm and peaceful and they were meandering up the trail - pretty picture to see. Nobody else was out there. Just us two ladies riding our ponies and lovin' being out on such a beauty afternoon. I was jamming along listening to some fine tunes (mix 13). When I was 50 yards behind the horse and rider I slowed to their speed and called out "hi there". The horse freaked out leaping off the trail and skitting around. Fortunately the lady was a fine horsewoman and didn't fall off - that would have been terrible. She was furious once she got control of the horse and whirled it around to face me. She couldn't find me at first as she was looking in the foreground thinking I was right up her ass. It took her a while to scan far enough down the trail to find me. She chewed on me hard when she found me tho'. I waited until her mouth had stopped moving then turned off my mp3 :-o and asked her how I could have done it better. She didn't really have a better solution for me. Just told me horses think bikes are predators. I cruised on feeling bad I'd got her and her horse worked up and spoiled her ride. Hopefully she got over it quick and back to the business of enjoying the afternoon. Horses and bikes make uncomfortable bed fellows sometimes... Posted Jan 16 2007, 10:15 PM by Lynda

• Desert Beavers and Horses

  I luv living in the desert. Sometimes I wonder how I came to be born in Scotland because I'm a desert gal thru and thru. I never ever tire of climbing up to high points, listening to the breeze and admiring the view. This is a high point round these parts. I love the 360 view from up here. I can name all the peaks and point out trails in every direction. I feel like I know this little piece of terra firma pretty well. Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 16 2007, 10:15 PM by lynda with no comments

• Ergomo Update

  Got the Ergomo up and rolling on a 68mm BB Gary Fisher Procaliber. It seems to be working fine but I haven't done any accuracy testing yet. CPU handlebar mount is the cheesiest thing in the world. It is held on with zip-ties. Yesterday on a fast bumpy descent the zip-ties holding it on crept off the side of the mount, the mount came loose, rotated forward, the CPU unclipped itself and fell into my front wheel. That was fun. We all came off unscathed. Later on one of the zip-ties broke and it fell again. It finished the ride in my pocket doing none of its data recording duties. Schwell... Today I went with 4 zip-ties. Two to hold the mount on, one to hold those two together to stop them creeping off the side of the mount and a big fat one around my stem to stop it from rotating forward. It held up to 134 TSS (IF 0.715) or 2:36 of off-road bashing today. It sure looks Home Depotesque. Today was a double ride day for me. I installed a new bell on Emmas bike and we took that for a workout. It's always a race Wheee! This cracked me up...   Joel on the big teeter totter rock up at the point   and still on it...   Another chilly day here in the desert. Clear skies and no smog tho'. Big visibility. We rode the Green Valley smorgasboard today. Posted Jan 14 2007, 07:15 PM by Lynda

• Ergomo Update

  Got the Ergomo up and rolling on a 68mm BB Gary Fisher Procaliber. It seems to be working fine but I haven't done any accuracy testing yet. CPU handlebar mount is the cheesiest thing in the world. It is held on with zip-ties. Yesterday on a fast bumpy descent the zip-ties holding it on crept off the side of the mount, the mount came loose, rotated forward, the CPU unclipped itself and fell into my front wheel. That was fun. We all came off unscathed. Later on one of the zip-ties… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling Posted Jan 14 2007, 07:15 PM by lynda with no comments