Quote from TonyWard on Sep 5^th, 2011, 2:51pm:

 
Looked for your car, but didn't see it. John S, Corsa Ken, and I did 2-1/2 laps and then went up the Trail, past IH 635, to where John and Ken parked their cars. I got back to Winfrey Point about 1:40 PM (We started our laps about 8:45 AM). Harrowing riding on the Path with all those pedestrians and inexperienced riders mixed in with the roadies.

I had a pleasant 21 miles yesterday doing some shopping and a run down to the church for a brainstorm session about my upcoming Autumn Equinox service. I actually had some miles in temperatures less than 80F! It was awesome.

Enjoyed the cool morning and wind was great ,7 today 23 yesterday,hello great weather  

This morning's commute to work was my first bike ride since Friday's ride home. I was roasting in the 101 degree heat Friday afternoon. It was 48 degrees this morning. Somewhere, you can look it up and find that the average temperature in north Texas is 65 degrees. What they don't tell you is that it's actually never 65 degrees here; it goes right from 101 degrees to 48 degrees.

Great report Paul, thanks for sharing. Those tandems are cool and if it gets one back on the trail, that's awesome. I cranked out about 7 miles this morning after I did some tweaking on the rear shifter,I hadn't messed with it in nearly 1000 miles so it was fun to play with. I sure could have used an extra arm for a few min in the process, but it worked out ok anyway.
 
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Quote from Opus the Poet on Sep 7^th, 2011, 4:54pm:

And as this article points out, was the hottest summer ever endured anywhere in the United States ever (at least since such things have been recorded).

I was off Monday for the holiday, but rode to work the next 4 days. The last two afternoon rides home, it has been 87 degrees, and after all the 100+ degree temperatures this year, that doesn't feel hot at all.
 
In spite of the record heat and the fact that I'm a 60 year old lung cancer survivor, I rode 827 miles in June, 840 miles in July, and 790 miles in August, so I think I did well this summer.
 
2011 days ridden to work: 152
2011 commuting mileage: 3712.5

Commuted to the east side ride this morning - about 5 miles from the finish of the ride, someone had a fl@t.  After it was changed and we started to roll again, I discovered my rear tire had flatted as well.  We did a quick inspection and couldn't find anything in the tire, threw my spare tube in and got back on the road.  No more than 1 mile later I hear something........I had my fingers crossed that it was Jay's freewheel.......it wasn't.  I fl@tted again.    Luckily Jay is a speed demon and he was able to chase the group down and they came back to my rescue with a patch kit (which I thought I had in my bag but didn't)  John tracked down what we thought was the issue with some faulty rim tape and did a fix in the field that let me manage to finish the ride.  Have I mentioned how much I enjoy riding with this good group of people ( including RBENTer's Jay, RichardR, & Carolyn who sent her husband back in his truck in case I needed a sag)!  Luckily the ride ends next to PCF so I could go in and get some new rim tape, patch kit, extra tubes & CO2 cartridges.  $40 later I was walking out the door - stuff sure seems to add up fast huh?  Rode over to Potbelly's for lunch with the group.  Having 60 miles in on a planned 100 mile day I didn't let the previous day's issues put a damper on such a beautiful day.  Filled up my bottles after lunch and zig zagged through Richardson to WRT and headed down to the lake for a lap.  Then found my way North back up to Miller and headed east across Dallas & Garland to Rowlett.  I am glad to report that in the entire ride I didn't run across a single aggresive/hostile driver.  In fact I stopped at the 7-11 next to the lake and had a car full of teenagers tell me to go ahead b/c they wanted to see how I rode my Corsa.  They were out crusing the lake and gave a little honk goodbye when they passed me on the west side.   It sure is refreshing to run into someone like that rather than someone who just gets behind you and lays on the horn.  
 
Finished with 100.4 miles and felt great at the end.  During my first century last year at HHH I struggled from mile 80-100 so I sure had a big mental block that I couldn't ride that far again.  It was great to overcome that mental hurdle.    It was a long day - rolled out of my drive way at 6:45 am and rolled in about 5:15 but I had a blast!!!