Sunday's Attempt

Hellmut and the new Carboner OCLV

Rivendell Heron Chilling the overheated michelins

The very cold day to go for a ride

Geneva, IL artwork

Stoic Man

Hellmut and I planned out this Sunday to go do a real hard ride and it really happened. I woke up at 5 am on a Sunday, in december and found myself doing loops in front of Hellmuts house around 5:45. We left the Hellmut residence at 5:52 allowing the ride to clasify as a DBD ride. It was frigid cold at that point and we instantly froze. We took the GWT to shelter against the wind that was already blowing from the SE giving us a good headwind all the way to Naperville, IL.

We went through Fermi Lab, where there was no shelter. We often got off our bikes and walked and ran to get circulation back into our feet. We alternately went from freezing hands to freezing feet. We could not figure out how this worked.

IT was nice to make it to Naperville and take the well deserved break at the Starbucks. We finished coffee and headed back to a cuasi sidewind that then shifted to a headwind as winds shifted from Se to S to Sw.

We climbed up Townhall rd then took Beith to Macbeth to 64 to old state to home. Our legs were pretty cooked and we were satisfied with the hard effort.

Only Charlie can tell us if this classifies as a DBD ride.

Total miles 91.79 miles

Max 34.5 mph

time riding 6.23.13 hrs

Av. 14.4 mph



Todays snow will have me doing more base miles on the Great Western Trail. Lots of wool , extra socks and a comfy MP3 player in me ears.

be well and ride them bikes,,

Ari