Busy Weekend

Saturday: Finally got off my butt and got some "bike" stuff done. Saturday I dragged all of my bikes out and gave them all a tune up and fixed a couple of flats. I also tuned up the girl's bikes and got the small bike ready for my 3 year old. She has been content with her radio flyer tricycle up until about a week ago. Now she wants to ride with her sisters. No problem, found the old training wheels and put them on the bike that 1 & 2 learned on. After a few attempts figuring out the brakes, she was zooming up and down the court. I guess watching her sisters ride around for the past couple of years shortened the learning curve.

Single speed line up

Sunday: Ride The Buttermilk. Small group of people met up in Richmond to ride the James River Train System. We met at the civil war museum parking lot at 8 (yeah, 6 am departure from VB) and got on the trail around 8:30. Might be the lack of riding I've been doing lately, but I don't remember walking as much the last time I rode here. There are a few climbs and rock gardens that are pretty technical, but I can usually tackle the uphills and switchbacks. Not this weekend. There were several sections on the Buttermilk where I couldn't carry enough momentum on the ss to get up and through and had to unclip and take the walk. We hit a section in Forest Hill that I hadn't ridden before and it was awesome, flowing goodness. We rode for about 3 hours, although at least 45 minutes of that was the typical stop and wait (for yours truly) associated with a group ride. Afterwards we went over to Banditos Burrito Lounge for post ride drinks and lunch. Stats and Google Map of the ride:

Lazy with a capital L

 Two rides since July, both on my SS 29er.  I'd like to blame it on family obligations and coaching soccer, but there have been times I could have gotten out and done a few laps around the hood. Thankfully, next weekend is the last weekend of games for Jr Academy and we are done with the training sessions. My boy's team is slowly winding down their season as well. We've got a tournament in Raleigh the 1st weekend in Dec and I am taking my bike with me. Too many great places around there to ride. The tournament is in a showcase format, so we will only have 1 game on Fri, 1 on Sat and 1 on Sun. That should leave some time and daylight to get a few rides in. I definitely need to step it up if I am going to reach my goal of getting 1000 miles in this year.