Sunday, September 19, 2010

GRider takes the spotlight

Today's mileage milestone was achieved by the Guest Rider. She mentioned the number of years it took her to get to this point but I either couldn't, didn't or won't hear it. Anybody who doesn't think 4,000 miles is a lot is probably a person with about 118 miles on THEIR bicycle odometer. Congratulations to GRider and her Bianchi Veloce.She also has a lot of unrecorded miles from bicycles rented on our annual Michigan vacation so her total ride total is even higher.

Note to self: Next time you want to photograph one of these please keep in mind that the automatic setting focuses on the ground, not on the computer and that that is true with the macro setting turned on or off. Try something else.

Here is where she was when she passed the milestone.It is handy that there is already a survey marker located nearby as it will make location of the historic marker certain to be placed there much more easily located.

It is probably also apparent from her costume that even with the sun obviously shining we are still running temperatures a fair amount below average for the middle of September.

We rode the 10 lakes tour with some modifications. For example, we skipped one of the lakes and visited a swamp instead. Here at the swamp in the Snail Lake Regional Park we got a photograph of a picturesque old dead tree.For those with a burning desire to know, that swamp is located quite near to Snail Lake along the route between Snail Lake and Sucker Lake.

We had a nice ride and we must have been humming along pretty well. As we rode past Lake Owasso an older gentleman came to the end of his driveway to remind us that the speed limit on that street is 30mph. We thanked him for his concern. However, one of the functions on my bicycle computer is maximum speed. I checked it when we got home and I am able to report a maximum speed that indicates we were never, ever in violation of the speed limit.

On the other hand we were going 29.5 at one point.

No soccer news from France today, Nantes plays the Monday night game.

Here's something from England though:

1 comment:

Santini said...

Congratulations to GRider, that is a LOT of miles.