Saturday Step-up Ride Logs
Member |
Date |
Description |
Miles |
Speed |
Climb |
Comments |
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2012-06-23 | Step Up | 32.50 | 12.00 | 0 | |||
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2011-10-22 | Step-Up | 30.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Led this group today in Doug's absence. Hope others will "step-up" to leadership while Doug is out. I enjoyed meeting the new-to-me riders. Big thanks to Michele, Kathy, and Chris for their help when it was needed to get everyone back to the start. No idea of average since Garmin wasn't doing its job. BTW, it worked VERY well to leave the parking lot in the correct order after DB Lite, Tweeners, and B Square. | ||
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2011-10-08 | Step up | 30.00 | 0.00 | 0 | Riding north was fun, southbound was a good windy workout, it beats the trainer! Thanks to Ken, Steven, Denise and Anna Lynn for a safe Saturday morning ride | ||
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2011-09-17 | Step Up ride 17 Sep 11 | 31.20 | 13.10 | 0 | Really nice temps for a change! A little humid but no rain, darn it! One rider started off with a flat tire and then had adjustment wheel problems, but the rider did get it fixed and caught up with us at the break. | ||
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2011-09-10 | 10 Sep 11 Step Up Ride | 28.80 | 12.90 | 0 | Seemed to have a very small group at first but people showed up on time and we had 17 riders. On the way out we had a mishap with a rider down (skinned knee) and a warped bike wheel. Called up friends to come get the riders. I need to replinish my first aid supplies. Helps to have a nurse on the ride with us. The weather was great and I didn't melt down from the heat! | ||
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2011-09-10 | Back in the Saddle | 31.02 | 0.00 | 0 | Been off the bike for 2 weeks due to travel, nice to get back on. 65 deg starting out in the morning felt great. | ||
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2011-09-03 | 3 Sep 11 Step Up Ride | 31.30 | 12.90 | 0 | Big group, split on the way back. | ||
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2011-08-20 | Step Up | 31.00 | 12.90 | 0 | Wanted to get in more miles than Novice but not push the pace since I am not heat acclimated. Chose to ride Step Up and rode with some terrific people. Thanks to Doug for leading. Good visit with a wide group of people at Starbucks afterwards. | ||
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2011-08-20 | 20 Aug 11 Step Up Ride | 31.00 | 12.40 | 0 | Good group, one flat tire in Craig's ranch. I continue to have problem with my endurance when the temp is at 100F+. But I did finish the ride! At least the humidity was low today. | ||
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2011-08-06 | Cooler Step Up Today | 30.86 | 0.00 | 0 | Nice cooler breeze for a change today, even though it was 87 deg when we started out. My reference point is I rode Friday after 5pm in 108 deg and felt like a blast furnace hitting my face. | ||
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2011-08-06 | 6 Aug 2011 Step Ride | 29.50 | 12.20 | 0 | Another big group, mostly because Tweeners and B2 left at 0630 and ones left behind rode with us. At the break we split, and the tweener group went on their way. | ||
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2011-07-30 | Saturday Step Up | 31.00 | 13.60 | 0 | Felt fine; waiting on visit to doc next week. | ||
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2011-07-30 | 30 jul 11 Step Up Ride | 19.90 | 10.30 | 0 | Taking a week off for a family staycation did nothing for my bike conditioning. Once again I had to cut short my ride and send others for the rest of the ride. Definitely had early symptoms of heat exhaustion. I ride a stationary bike for mid week exercise and I'm going to double time on the exercise bike to match the distance and elapsed time of a Saturday ride and see if that gets my heat endurance up enough to finish the ride. | ||
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2011-07-23 | Hot and Easy | 30.73 | 0.00 | 0 | Nice paced ride, with 3 stops. Chain fell off during ride, went to Plano Cycle to get it tuned up after the ride. New bike since Feb, guess it is still breaking in. Amazing what a little adjustment can do. | ||
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2011-07-16 | 16 July 2011 Step Up ride | 30.90 | 12.30 | 0 | Hot humid day and tried to get heat stroke on the first leg. Group waited for my recovery and we finished the ride. I drafted my other strong riders on the way back. | ||
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2011-07-09 | Saturday Step Up | 30.00 | 13.10 | 0 | Warm and a little windy. HR a little higher that would have liked. | ||
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2011-07-09 | 2nd Step Up Ride | 30.86 | 0.00 | 0 | Numerous stops due to mechanical, but great ride, not as windy as 1st time out on Step Up. | ||
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2011-07-09 | 9 July Stepup Ride | 31.10 | 12.40 | 0 | Another hot summer day. Had a mechanical where the back tire warped due to a broken spoke so badly that the bike was unrideable. Send people ahead to get a car and go get him. | ||
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2011-07-02 | Saturday Step Up Ride | 30.00 | 13.60 | 0 | Felt okay until end when it started getting hot. Light winds which was nice for a change. | ||
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2011-07-02 | 2 Jul 2011 Step Up Ride | 20.00 | 11.10 | 0 | I wasn't yet fit to lead the ride from my cold and handed off the leader to some of my riders and went back alone. | ||
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2011-06-25 | 1st Time Step-Up | 30.87 | 0.00 | 0 | First Step-Up ride for me, pace was good. Was windy heading back South. Great group of people. | ||
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2011-06-18 | Saturday Step up | 30.00 | 12.50 | 0 | My first official ride back. (Don't tell my doc as I guess I'm just supposed to lie in bed and whistle... Turns out that Step Up was more than enough for me since I hadn't done anything aerobically in about 6 weeks other than the boring rehab sessions with a bunch of really old guys. I struggled to keep my HR where I wanted it. The ride out, with the wind was fine. Once we turned back around, that was another story and it was stuck well above the 110 I wanted to keep it at. But I survived. | ||
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2011-06-18 | 18 Jun 11 Step Up Ride | 30.91 | 12.00 | 0 | Big Group Today | ||
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2011-06-11 | 11 Jun 2011 Step Up Ride | 30.90 | 12.80 | 0 | Another hot day in the summer | ||
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2011-06-04 | 4 Jun 2011 Step Up Ride | 31.00 | 12.80 | 0 | Big group! | ||
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2011-05-28 | 28 May 11 Step Up ride | 30.50 | 11.30 | 0 | 25 Riders showed up today to go with our 20mph wind and high temps at the end. Holiday weekend crowd? With a tail wind behind us all the way to the rest stop we had no problems. Coming home into the wind we quickly broke into two groups as we had a number riders ready to Tweeners and some barely up from the Beginner ride. The high humidity and temps caused me to drop out at Coit and send the stronger group on the finish. Waited for the slower group and they had broken into 2 more packs. They turned South at Coit(not our route) and I caught up with some of them. At that point Walt was helping the slower group and keeping an eye on Glenn, who was faltering. Walt stayed with Glenn and I led the slower group the rest of the way back. If 25 + show up again, I'm going to grab some assitance from the tweeners. | ||
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2011-05-21 | 21 May Step Up ride | 31.00 | 12.10 | 0 | Small intimate group today. | ||
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2011-05-14 | 14 May 11 Stepup ride | 34.10 | 13.40 | 0 | Cool and windy for mid May, felt more like March! Worked on out pace line skills again going into the wind. Had a flat tire epidemic for one rider who used up his spares and two more before we gave it up and sent his wife to get a car. One of spare tubes had rotted in the bag. Reminder to all of us to inspect and rotate the spare tubes at least once a season. | ||
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2011-05-07 | 7 May 11 Step Up ride | 30.90 | 13.20 | 0 | Some new riders, had to bypass Cooper Ranch due to construction. | ||
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2011-04-30 | 30 April 11Step Up Ride | 29.90 | 13.10 | 0 | Another windy day in the office! | ||
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2011-04-23 | 23 ASpr 201 Step Up ride | 32.00 | 12.50 | 0 | More new riders and a terible wind along with high humidity. We had a bad crash with injuries on Ridgeview right before we got to Custer Rd. The Waste collection point had water on the road that turned the road into a slime slick track and 3 riders went down. Mostly scrapes and skinned legs with one rider with who aggravated an existing shoulder injury. We went on the Lowes on 121 and got the riders cleaned up and treated. The rider with a shoulder injury called home and was picked up. Had a new rider with us who would not stay in ou paceline and was moving up between riders to get ahead. Since she would not ride safely with our group, I sent her on ahead as a single rider. | ||
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2011-04-16 | 16 Apr11 Step Up Ride | 30.80 | 12.80 | 0 | Weat Wind all day, a number of new riders and some old ones. Since we had cross winds all day we didn't work on any paceline skills. | ||
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2011-04-02 | 2 April 2011 Step Up Ride | 30.80 | 13.10 | 0 | Small group and picked a rider who got to the starting point late, and then caught up with Tweeners. Not everyone noticed the new start time for April. | ||
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2011-03-26 | 26 March 11 Step Up ride | 30.60 | 12.60 | 0 | As forecast by NWS, the wind was brutal as a head wind. Once again instructed some riders on using pace line techniques. 15 mph head winds really show the utility of a pace line. 9 riders and the group stayed together. | ||
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2011-03-05 | 5 Mar 11 Step Up ride | 30.70 | 11.90 | 0 | Two regulars and some tweeners who joined us. This route basically goes North for the first half and today the north wind at 20 mph was kicking out butts. It was only 49F but it sure felt colder than that with the wind chill. The route back allows us to cruise with the tail wind and that was much more enjoyable.Never did see any heavy clouds or rain. | ||
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2011-02-26 | 26 Feb 2011 Step Up Ride | 32.10 | 12.60 | 0 | Samll but loyal group. Started with 2 but picked two more that started withe Tweeners that were pushed back to us. The Tweeners need to describe their ride better at the start so that newbies don'get caught up in the ride. As a group the Tweeners are pretty strong because they can maintain their 16 mph pace going up hills and into the wind. As a group, Step Up slows down for uphill grades and head winds. | ||
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2011-02-19 | 37.93 | 0.00 | 679 | Good Step-up ride with total of 8 riders. Wind was strong out of the South. Natalie is back and riding with platform pedals - she did good considering how long she's been off the bike. | |||
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2011-02-19 | 19 Feb 2011 Step Up ride | 33.40 | 13.10 | 0 | Interesting group of riders, including a guest star appearance from Natalie Mathews. It's the time of year when people start riding again after the long winter layoff and the Stepup ride seems to be the right pace and distance for starting up the year. All the ice is long gone but the sand is still on the roads is some areas, especially along the edges. One of the riders was monitoring his heart readings and had to soft pedal sometimes to keep his heart rate under control. I stayed back with him on the headwind return leg to make sure he got home ok. Everybody had fun and we will hope for good weather next weekend. | ||
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2011-02-12 | 12 Feb 2011 Step Up ride | 33.20 | 13.20 | 0 | Small but regular group. Started at 10am and it warmed up very nicely. Our strongest rider got real bike shoes and clips and will be riding with the Tweeners next week. Weather permitting. | ||
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2011-02-12 | Step-Up + Commute | 37.77 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
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2011-01-22 | 22 Jan 11 Step Up Ride | 30.00 | 13.10 | 0 | Another late start due to low temps. Waited until 10am and it was 62 F at the end and very nice. | ||
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2011-01-08 | 5 Jan 11 Step Up ride | 20.30 | 12.40 | 0 | 1st Step Up ride of 2011, and conditioning not up to par due to the long layoff. so we cut the route short. However, we had our life pass through our lives aa a drugged driver decided to come down McDermott on OUR side of the road. She never saw us but I think she saw the oncmoming traffic in her lane and cut across the median, hit a power pole stanction and took another car with her into the ditch. Nobody on our side was injured but did scare us. She could run over the entire pod. Anybody have any suggestions on how to prepare for a head on collision with with BMW 3 series? Welcome to 2011! 8 riders and 5 were new! | ||
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2010-12-11 | Cold, windy and overcast Step-up ride | 31.04 | 13.10 | 600 | A cold cloudy ride was made all the more harsh by a stiff north wind. But once we reached the turn-around point the cold north wind was mostly at our tail and the pace picked up significantly. | ||
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2010-12-11 | 11 Dec 2010 Step Up ride | 30.90 | 12.40 | 0 | Small group. Turned out to be the last ride of the year. | ||
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2010-12-04 | 4 dec 2010 Step Up ride | 33.00 | 13.00 | 0 | Mr. Wind showed up earlier than predicted and provided 15-20 mph winds. wind was from the north and gave us a headwind all the way out. Good news was a tail wind on the way home. | ||
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2010-11-27 | Another great Saturday Step-up ride | 30.92 | 13.70 | 571 | I had a good time again on this Saturday's Step-up ride. Delaying the start time from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM let things warm up and made for a much more enjoyable ride. The temperature at 8:00 AM was 32 degrees and by 10:00 AM it had warmed up to 53. The temp continued to climb throughout the ride and ended at a comfortable 62 degrees. My hill work last Sunday paid off as I was able to keep up on the sprint up and down the hills on Rolater. Hopefully with some more hill work and some more endurance work I'll be able to ride with the Tweeners. | ||
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2010-11-27 | Saturday 27 Nov 10 Step Up ride | 31.00 | 13.70 | 0 | Delayed start until 10am and temp was up to 50F at start. Would have been 38F at 0800. Small group but had fun. | ||
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2010-11-20 | Another fun Step-up ride | 29.77 | 14.20 | 643 | We missed Doug this morning on the Step-up ride. I hope you get better soon. On a positive note Mike did a great job stepping in and leading the group. We had 6 strong riders this morning and despite the cool, humid weather, the overcast skies, and an unscheduled break for a cramp we all had a good time. The tail-wind on the way out got us to the half-way point with ease however the head-wind on the way back was no fun at all. In order to make it through the wind I just kept telling myself what a good workout I was getting and how this will make me a stronger rider. :) | ||
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2010-11-13 | 1st Step-up ride | 31.00 | 13.80 | 0 | There were only 5 of us on the Step-up ride and it was cold during the ride but that didn't deter us from having a good time. Thanks to Doug and all the others on today's ride for a good time. | ||
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2010-11-13 | 13 Nov 10 Stepup Ride | 31.00 | 13.50 | 0 | Cold and Windy but not too cold for November. North winds were a problem on the way but did provide a nice tail wind on the way home. |