Over at another forum, someone started a thread with this simple title a while back. That thread is now very long. Lots of people, it seems, don't want to start a new thread for a simple report on a ride, but they don't mind replying to an existing thread with a couple of lines about their ride.
 
Let's do that here, too. If you have a detailed report to give, please start a new thread, just like always, especially if it's a ride that other rbenters participated in, and will soon be replying to your report. But if you only have a short report and don't want to start a new thread, post it as a reply here.
 
Even if the answer is no, you didn't ride today, post and tell us about today anyway (why you didn't ride, maybe).
 
I've restored and locked the old version of this thread. It crashed. Perhaps it just became too long. If you lost a post from the crash and restore, just repost it in this thread. You can read the original "Did you ride today" thread here

Well. 3 1/2 miles today 14 miles yesterday and a burned butt from the bike sitting in the sun while I worked I got a ride in the back of a pickup today because I had some cargo to haul back that wouldn't fit in a backpack. You know you're acclimated to the heat when a ride that's "only" 91F is comfortable without a water stop.

Just 2 laps around white rock today, getting ready for the BIG Clown ride tomorrow!!!  

Did 27 with the Clowns this morning, rode Kenny's bike about a mile, then went and picked up Kathy at the airport.

Early AM ride. Steve an I have been getting out about 5AM to bet the heat. Averaging around 25 miles each day.
On Thursdays we will ride with our local club.

Well, I don't know that this post for last Saturday is detailed enough - any case, I've never started a new thread so I'll go with what I know.
 
Sharon and I headed to the area west of Houston to escape the heat and joined 3 other LSR riders and one HR rider for a 300k. Well, it was cooler down south, but still a good bit over 100 and plenty more humid - so mixed results on "escaping the heat". But it does cool off down there when the sun sets - down to the low 70s by mornings. Still this was a pretty slow ride. The heat is the culprit. I didn't have major heat issues but 2 of our group of 5 did. However, I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. There were lots of rolling hills and some great back roads riding. It's been very dry in the area, but very little sign of trees dying off, such as here. The fields and pastures are greener looking there as well. The heat hasn't affected wildlife sightings - we saw lots of deer in the morning. Besides my 2.4 mile roundtrip from the other hotel, I realized at the end that I was very close to 200 miles. I'd already shut off the Garmin, but added 1.17 miles to make it 200. I used the wired backup computer to record the extra. The Garmin was already giving me "low battery" so I didn't turn it back on, I left the Garmin off to maximize available juice for Sunday! That's about the most extra I'd do to register 200, these days, especially when its late and I'm just wanting to get some food and get to bed.  
 
Sunday our fearless leader wanted some company on his fun "cooldown" Sunday ride. 4 of 5 of us from the previous day were on board with that. With an 8AM start though, we were very quickly enduring some serious heat. I think it was hotter than the previous day, but it was hard to tell on the thermometer as we ducked in and out of cloud shadows on our route, which was an out and back from Brookshire to Alleyton. I did see more sustained sun temperature at 114° than I had the day before. But the best I got on "shade" temp was 105, same as Saturday. We had some serious crosswind too. But I didn't see this as a big issue - it provided the only relief from the sun beating down, besides the intermittent clouds. But it did slow us down even from a slow Saturday. It's called Tacos & BBQ because the turnaround point has a BBQ place on one end of the convenience store and a Taco Bell on the other end. We chose Taco Bell for our lunch. We added 6 extra miles at the end to make the minimum distance (90 miles) for posting to the UMCA century challenge.  
 
This was one of my more ambitious summer weekends for riding, this year. Thanks to the cooling vest, all day rations of Pediolyte, and topping our fluids off with ice at every stop, it was possible to do this without being overly affected by heat!
 

I didn't ride to work Monday and I'm taking a day of vacation tomorrow, so I only rode to work 3 days this week. On the way home Tuesday, I rode a couple of miles off my usual route to stop by Performance Bike to pick up an order, and ended up with 29.6 miles.  
 
I thought today was just going to be another standard 105 degree ride home, but I was mistaken. When I went to leave work, I noticed my front tire was low. I pumped it up and headed for home. As soon as I walked out of the shop, I noticed the dark clouds in the north. I didn't think too much about it. Most of our storms come from the west, so I figured this would stay north of me.  
 
Just over halfway home, I could tell that front tire was getting low again, so I stopped to pump it up. It was obvious by then that this storm wasn't moving east, it was coming south and gaining on me. I hadn't quite finished pumping the tire up when the 50 mph north wind and dust storm hit.
 
The south ride down Crowley Road was nice. I would have averaged over 30 mph if I hadn't hit every traffic light red. But when I turned west on FM 1187, I was dealing with a 50 mph crosswind, not that much fun on a faired bike. The storm faded before it reached me and all we got at home was wind and dust. It looks like the cooler air reached DFW Airport early enough to end our streak of 100+ degree days at 40, two short of the record.
 
2011 days ridden to work: 135
2011 commuting mileage: 3295.8  
 
 
Tuesday commute with side trip to Performance Bike.

Did Mesquite again thursday night, enjoying the sub-100 degree temperature...  a group of 7 decided to ride at ~20mph instead of 23-24, so I was able to hang with them for once...  Got in a nice 30 miles.

yup, just got in from riding down the road about .69 mile to where my 30 yr old horse has a pasture to help a friend doctor her 30 yr old mare.  Then rode back home and then my hubby did 3/4 mile WITH THE BREAK ON ALL THE WAY ( he forgot to undo the little button you press down on the handle bar. Then I rode around the block a little more...wish we had more places to ride.  
 
Susan And Stephen Barackman from Paris, tX
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Did a short ride this morning on the Trinity Trail before going to work. Talked with JMan briefly - It was good to chat in person after reading so many of his posts. Maybe good news on the TT construction front also. I spoke with one of the guys working on the section near Bryant Irvin road - he said they were going to finish up on Tuesday with their work, so concrete could be going back in on Wednesday. Woo-hoo! that detour section is where I cut a sidewall and flatted a tire a couple of weeks ago right at dusk.

Even though it was wet and rain in the area I just could not sit home and see a cloudy day pass, after all it is August and the rain is not cold so off I went. What's a little rain and slick road to a CLOWN. 30 miles, we need more RAIN!!!  

Nope, I didn't ride today. I got up at 4:00 am, got my cycling stuff on, ate breakfast, and started getting my cycling stuff ready. Only then did I look at the weather radar and realize there was going to be strange wet stuff falling from the sky for hours. I went back to bed.

Well Ihope you didnt read it while you where eating.  Now I have to deal with these folks from OHIO.

I took off from home on the Corsa around 6:20 this morning and rode 93.4 miles. A good bit of that was my Crowley Cricket Crunch permanent route. One thing I wanted to do was check CR 405 to see if Johnson County had finally paved it again. It had been gravel for long enough that I had finally re-routed Crowley Cricket Crunch around it. But, it’s paved now, so I can change it back.
 
There were a few showers around, but I never got rained on. I did see a nice rainbow just south of Burleson. The clouds lasted until 11:00 am, and it was getting pretty hot by the time I got home just before 1:00 pm. Winds stayed light for the entire ride.

Put 31 miles on the Musashi at WRL, yesterday. Ran across Steve S. riding his Catrike 700. This was his first outing since he injured his right leg in June. After Steve packed it in and went home, I ran across Bob M. on his Cartrike 700 and rode the rest of the time with him. Later, Bob and I ran across Mark L. in the Dallas Bike Works parking lot, just after he had completed his riding for the day. This was Mark's first WRL ride since returning from Wisconsin (Where he participated in the Hostle Shoppe recumbent rally) and Illinois. Got to see the police stop and ticket a guy driving a car on the Path at Tee Pee Hill. He was apparently not drunk, and was not old and confused, so I don't know what his excuse was.  
 
Put 43 miles on the Baron at WRL, today. Initially, ran across Grady B. riding his new, blinged-out Musashi and rode with him. We had to pretty much stick to the roads, because there was a big running event taking place and the Path was jammed with runners. Later, Grady and I ran across Lynn M, Carolyn T, Larry K, and Tony W at Tee Pee Hill. Larry is a recent recumbent convert (Had been riding a hybrid bike) who is trying to decide which type of recumbent to buy. He has been riding Lynn's P-38 and was giving Carolyn's Bacchetta Corsa a try this morning. Had some fun with Tony. He was riding his low racer, and we did some high-speed riding on the east side Path with me drafting him. Also, we did some high-speed riding on West Lawther. After riding the Musashi, yesterday, and the Baron, today, I'm pretty well convinced that it takes a little less effort to cruise at 23 mph on the Musashi than on the Baron. After I receive the parts this week, I'm going to convert the Baron's 9-speed drive train to close-ratio 10-speed, like the Musashi's, and see if it makes a difference.

Got in my parks and Trinity ride this morning. Nice breeze from south kept it comfy for a morning total of 19 miles. Didn't see any other bents today and few df's.

Quote from rmillay on Aug 17^th, 2011, 1:38pm:

 
 
 What bike you get??

20 miles going to Mesquite for what I thought would be a $1k gas card but it turned out to be only $2. The flyer had my winning numbers next to the picture of the gas card prize, but that wasn't what my prize was.

Quote from mleuck on Aug 17^th, 2011, 9:32pm:

 
I wonder who that was......

Saw that on the news.    The new bike is a RANS Formula LE -- red.  Still awaiting the apps.

Quote from rmillay on Aug 18^th, 2011, 3:57pm:

 
Photos, we need photos!!!!  

Got in 7miles around the neighborhood, rolled past Performance Cycling but got there too early to go shopping, they have extened their store 60% off sale.   I'll be back to scarf up some tubes and stuff later.

45 mile ride this evening through Flower Mound/Lantana/Double Oak

60 miles early at Benbrook.  Left at 6 with lights and finished at 9:40.  Averaged 17.2.  Good month as I have at least a 100k every week.  Waiting for fall for longer rides.

Did the 7AM version of the Airport Ride, but just an out and back for 44 miles...  banged my heel on my trash dumpster a few days ago, and it's still sore....

56 miles up through Flower Mound/Argyle, I need more work on those hills.
 
Tons of cyclists out this morning

Quote from mleuck on Aug 21^st, 2011, 11:41am:

 
Good to see you out there.    I'll let you guess which one of the uprights that said hi was me.  I might have to coordinate a ride with you at some point, you ride within 1/8 mile of my house every time you do the FM/Argyle route.
 
 
In fact, there were lots of 'bents on the airport loop.  Even saw PB.    

Got 10 1/4 in today including riding over to get my ride pkt for the Sep.10 fun ride.

28 miles today at WRL watching Jay keep from running over joggers and cyclists.  

22 miles this weekend between 3 trips to church, all of which had at least one leg with temperature over 100F I had a 20 mile trip that rubbed the skin off my backside from riding in sweat-soaked underwear with the temperature over 100 on the way back from a car dealer... That was Wednesday. Still feeling the effects of that ride

I joined Mark and Diane, who were on their tandem, and rode my Peachy Keene 200K permanent this morning. We started out at 5:00 am so we wouldn’t be riding too many hours after it reached 100 degrees this afternoon.
 
My legs really had nothing early, a result of riding to work all five days this week, I guess. But I got stronger as the day went, and didn’t need my granny chainring for Orphan Hill at mile 70. That only happens on days when I’m feeling pretty good.
 
We ended up finishing just before 2:30 this afternoon. I ended up with 124.5 miles. Total time was 9:28. It had gotten seriously hot by the time we finished, but the early start kept us from getting cooked too many hours, and Mark and Diane were great company as always, so it was a good ride.

Due to Actionbent's demise...is Jay now the new Performance distibutor?

Quote from FlyingLaZBoy on Aug 21^st, 2011, 8:51pm:

 
 
Me TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Quote from FlyingLaZBoy on Aug 21^st, 2011, 8:51pm:

 
You should have spoken sooner, as I've already willed my cycles to another RBENT member.  

Well, I waited for someone to report on the Clown ride today looks like I will. 14 for breakfast and all rode there own pace and distance. Good to see JoEllia ,today, back from surgery.   GO CLOWNS!!!

Quote from Action Lad on Aug 21^st, 2011, 10:44pm:

Glad you're on our team  

Finished 50 mile ride in Flower Mound/Lantana.

I rode to work Monday, yesterday, and today. It was some seriously hot afternoons again (107 today). I was on tired legs Monday and yesterday from the 200K on Sunday.
 
It's a short commute week for me this week. I'm taking tomorrow and Friday off the bike, resting for HHH on Saturday.
 
2011 days ridden to work: 143
2011 commuting mileage: 3491.8

Finished 40 mile ride around Grapevine/DFW Airport, NOW I'm ready for HHH!

Today, had planned on STCC (Shawnee Trail Cycle Club in Frisco) but didn't get away from work in time. Instead, I headed down to Poteet HS in Mesquite to do a ride I hadn't done since I first started riding recumbent. I was shocked at how easy the hills were down there, this time, as opposed to the last time I'd done this ride. It was alot of fun. I'll be doing this one during the next couple of weeks, i think. Bonus - it's close to home!
AVG 18.5 / climb 885 ft / 30.7 mi

Rolled out at 5:15 a.m.  80.24 miles @ 16.7 mph.  I think I am getting my legs back.  Hope to break into the 17-18 mph range for a 100 miles.  Need a little more work plus not riding with lights.

Demonstrated how to ride in the heat for my church today. I don't know how you guys do it, but I did my 7 miles today in 105F by hydrating and staying within my limits as a rider and not riding harder than my body could reject the heat. Funny thing is I only lost about.5 MPH off my average speed between the 80F days and the 100+F days. Anyway 16 miles for the weekend of just going places I had to go and doing things I had to do.

Me and Keith rode the lake today 9.75 miles. Halfway around the lake we got rained on and it was a cold rain tooo. Felt real good. We saw Kenny on the lake with his kayak..I hollerd at hime but he couldn't hear me..

Got in 53 miles on the Clown ride. Ten riders today. After 3-1/2 laps, 6 of us peeled off and went up the White Rock Trail. Didn't get our ice cream fix at the Tennis Center, because it was closed.    The three of us that came back down the Trail were in a weakened state (no ice cream in our stomachs). Larry K on his recently purchased Bacchetta Corsa and I on my classic Musashi had fun racing on West Lawther. On our second lap, when I was still fresh, outran a young roadie riding at 24+ mph on West Lawther. Oh the shame - passed by a septuagenarian on a recumbent.    Today, Bob M's brand new, red RANS Formula LE with sparkle clear-coat finish made its first appearance on a Clown ride.
 

 
Bob M. on his new Formula LE. In background is Carolyn T. on her P-38 and Victor D. on his new RANS SXP.

A little over 9 miles going to the grocery store and the "party". It was a little cooler out there but still too hot.

Did the Mesquite / Sunnyvale ride twice this week. Rode over with Stephen Hazleton from his house near Duck Creek and joined the ride, both Tuesday and Thursday (today).  
 
Tuesday Stephen was going for 1000+ miles for the month so we did the full loop, all the way down to I-20. We had our headlights, so no problem with the extra miles. Even so, we finished at 8:30 PM, barely into darkness.  
 
I had a 17.6 avg for 45.6 miles and 1479 ft of climbing - very enjoyable ride.
 
Today we did the loop everyone else did - down to Berry and back up. But with the commute miles, we had 39.6 miles total and finished before darkness set in. Thanks to light wind and feeling fresh (because I skipped riding yesterday) I rode with the fast guys until we reached the shade just south of Hwy 80. There I waited for Stephen, Ed, and Dale to catch up and rode with them off an on back to Poteet.
Today's avg was 18.8 with 1270 ft of climbing. Enjoyed watermelon with Stephen after the ride!

If you were out riding this morning, you know how nice it was to not feel well done by 9am. I enjoyed 23 miles on the TT starting at sunrise and rode a big loop around the parks and trail. saw 2 delta trikes and one tadpole while out. also a guy had to use my air pump cause he said his was broke and he didn't find out till he needed it. dohooo! I pray none here are "that guy"   this dude was riding a bike that the wheels were worth morte than my whole bike and not only was his pump "broke"(I never saw it) when I handed him my Topeak he didn't know which end of tghe pump to put the valve into. so sad. I hope he made it to his car ok.

yes, it was cooler and I tried the other direction on our road which is uphill and I was able to do it without much problem...only went 1 mile each way ---on the way down with peddling got almost up to 15 mph...weeeee!!!!  and then around the neighborhood a little.  Yes, I know this short  distance probably has most of you guffawing, but I was told by the doctor that I need both hips replaced.  Then my hubby rode his little half mile around the block.  
 
Susan of Paris TX

Did the Denison TX 2 FLags 216k today. I was the only who chose this "short" option. Everyone else had chosen anywhere from 300k to 1000k. Since I was alone, means I got to ride it my way - fastest pace I could manage, long or short breaks - no complaints from anyone; frequency of breaks - my choice. It was a good ride! 135 miles; 18.5 avg; 2539 climbing. Most of ride in Texas; some in Oklahoma.

46 miles at WRL this morning with Jay...... stiff North wind made West Lawther no fun.  All the roadies disappeared when the wind picked up and it got a little bit warmer this morning.  Wonder where they all went  
 
Edit: just looked at the weather - 30 mph wind gusting to 40 explains why West Lawther was such a struggle today.

24 miles over the weekend. The ride to church this morning was glorious with temperatures in the 80s and a tailwind that added 2 MPH to my normal average speed on the church run. And I felt so good coming back that I kept almost a full 1 MPH of that gain.

Quote from esbee on Sep 4^th, 2011, 7:04pm:

 
Susan, Let us know when you 2 will be comming to White Rock and some of the Clowns can keep you company.

1 lap at WRL with kid in tow.  The wind added with that trailer sure made riding into the north wind a challenge.  Wished I could have gotten up on the road - too many people out today enjoying the nice weather.  Kiddo enjoyed it so it made it all worthwhile.  I was glad she wasn't egging me on to race everyone we saw like she usually is.

Quote from jayg on Sep 5^th, 2011, 3:31pm:

12 miles this morning before work - saw 2 other riders on part of my route.  I hadn't seen any other riders at 5:45 am all summer long - it sure made my day!

Got in some fun riding in Kansas at the RANS rally...  Friday afternoon, Terrie and I took out a Seavo tandem  
(http://www.rans.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=2 78) for the simple 10-mile ride around Hays to the ice cream shoppe and back...
 
Saturday morning, I took her out on a Screamer tandem (http://www.rans.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=2 77)  for the 34-mile Cathedral route -- she was able to do the whole route, with only one rest stop, despite having very little bike time over the last couple of years - so that's VERY encouraging!  I had my doubts going in, but I'm very proud of her!
 
The Seavo is a faster machine, due to the large front wheel and a slightly better power pedaling position for the stoker -- it's also a bit more comfortable for the captain, but there's a bit more heelstrike than on the Screamer that has the 20" front.
 
Saturday afternoon, I participated in the MTB track races at the factory, riding an Alterra CF -- not much mileage, but racing five times around the 1/3 mile course, I was exhausted...
 
Sunday morning, I rode the Xstream (while Terrie rode SAG) for the 28-mile Lake Wilson route -- a pretty challenging set of climbs and winds from the north.
 
Overall, it was a PERFECT weather weekend -- 60s to 80s, what a change from summer!!!
 
Monday morning after we got back, I joined in the GDB Poteet to Combine 50-miler with about 25 others in the the stiff north winds...   so, it was a ~200K weekend, stretched out over 4 days.  Oh, plus 550 miles each way in the car to Kansas and back.
 
PB

Bud, the "average" temperature for the entire summer was only 87 degrees...

I've been averaging 30 mi on evening rides all week. Well I got up this morning and thought...i can ride or I could do laundry...well I might be dumb but I aint stupid....so around and around the lake I go plus a little loving hills area...for 104.

Quote from Bud_Bent on Sep 9^th, 2011, 7:33pm:

so, everyone that ept on riding inspite of the heat can pat themselves on the back for surviving in record heat. Now everyone should go ahead and get a catscan.  

Quote from Bud_Bent on Sep 9^th, 2011, 9:07pm:

 
 
 Yes Sir you did....

Quote from TonyWard on Sep 10^th, 2011, 8:31pm:

 
While Tony and I were in PCF, we were approached by one of the customers concerning a low mileage Bacchetta he had for sale. We recommended he join RBENT and advertise it under "Marketplace". He said it was blue and had two 26" wheels (an older Giro 26?). Also, Sales Manager, Greg, approached me and said he had a customer that wanted to sell a CA 2.0. I recommended that it too be advertised on RBENT. So, maybe these bikes will be advertised soon (or maybe not).  

I rode the Velo Venus populaire yesterday with a nice mix of LSR folks as a birthday ride.  I rode my age in miles--then I had to ride two more miles to get back to my car.  What a nice day for a ride!  They ruined the chip seal on the 287 access road, near the start and finish, by covering it with smooth macadam.  But Johnson County countered by putting fresh chip seal on the highway into and out of Venus!  I scared some people on my new bike, but I didn't fall off once!  

yes we did
went to the trail de paris and my husband is now up to 4.25 miles...he has marathon on his phone and it keeps tabs of milege, speed, elevation and etc.... the thing said he was climbing about half the time.  we saw a TV (turkey vulture) on the trail just standing there while another one hovered overhead...i was able to get real close but could not figure out how to use my cell phone camera (technology does not work for me!) and it kept walking away...i think it was a young one learning to fly...or sick (maybe something it ate) and it eventually flew away.
 
Hey, I am thinking of entering our trike in the yearly christmas parade (sometime in november)...  If my husband could do the distance, we could dress him up as santa and deck the bike out in lights.  I will probably ride it though...any thoughts on the kind of lights to use?  

Quote from esbee on Sep 11^th, 2011, 3:00pm:

 
See this thread.

I rode the 60 mile route at the Cowtown Classic yesterday. I spoke to Joe, Diane, Eddie, and Mark L before the ride, and saw Mark L again afterwards (great to see y'all!). I like the route this ride uses, but it's not a great route for speed. It's mostly tiny Johnson County roads, with lots of turns, gravel in many of the turns, and some rough stretches of road. I didn't hear how the turnout was, but there looked to be several hundred riders.
 
I rode to the start of the ride, then home again, so ended up with 69.7 miles. On the ride itself, I had a total of 60.3 miles. I only made one 5 minute stop and finished the ride in 3:21. My on the bike average was 18.4 mph. That's probably about as fast as I can do this route, almost 1 mph faster than I was on it last year.
 

 
I pedaled about 4 miles on Lake Benbrook this morning.
 

I was out at WRL checking out a trike rider (paul?) at the 7/11 parking lot when a gang of bikers rode by...paul and dave with Teri and Teri? Mixed with them a short whle then went on to get my thirty in. 700 to go.

Quote from shellbear on Sep 11^th, 2011, 8:37pm:

 
I'll be on the Sunday Roll next weekend -- been doing other things for the past month!  C'mon back out next week!   I love that ride -- very social, and very exploratory.

I got in 23 miles this morning out to Trinity Park. Came across two ladies on bents shortly after turning off Belaire heading for the Low Level Dam crossover outbound to the park. One was on a red Tour Easy and the other on a fairly new blue EZ3 delta, I told them to check out the rbent site, hope they join us.