"Official" BIYF 2016-2017 thread

Took the dog for a short run/trot before rain set in. By the halfway point in the ride the temp was approaching 10 degrees or more over what was expected. Decided to cut the pace to give the pup a break. Few rest stops, rest in the shade back at the car, an air conditioned nap on the way home, and he was all set to wrastle around with the other one when we walked in the door. Added some additional stops for impromptu TM.

1:05:25
https://www.strava.com/activities/879450126/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1488066352

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Clearing some smaller deadfall and closing off shortcuts in the twistier sections.
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2/24 Commute Double

To: 1:41:33
Home: 1:33:04

The story - Beautiful morning, quiet smooth ride on the PA side tow path UNTIL..... quick back story.. the past couple weeks I've been really absent minded and forgetful. The night before I did a load of laundry and after seperating my kits and throwing the rest of the clothes in the dryer, I forgot to start the dryer... fast forward, resume my wonderfully beautiful commute... as I'm just North of 95, I remembered I forgot to start it and whip out my phone and call my wife. Wearing my PI gloves with the cell phone friendly finger tips, I hit facetime instead of the call button. Wife answers, I tell her I forgot and then she passes the phone to my middle son. About a minute in to the conversation, I notice the spillway and its in full spill mode, full of water... I panick, freeze up, ride into the spillway one handed while the other hand holding my phone, my son watching this unfold, my tire snags an expansion joint and down I go.. HARD.. but I kept the phone up like those videos of epic falls and the dude never spills the beer. I get up, my son passes the phone to the wife and they both have a look like OH SHIT!!!. i get off the phone.. check myself out and I have a huge chunk of skin missing from my palm and my knuckles are shredded and lots of blood. My elbow and hip sting like hell. I walk over to the canal, tear off a flap of hanging skin from my palm and rinse out the gash. I took a good 10-15 minutes to get my shit together. I went back a few more times to rinse out the hand... I'm now pissed, embarrased and in pain. Call the wife back and let her know I'm ok, just banged up. I jump back on the bike and have about 7 miles to get to work. Gloves are soacked and shredded... hands are wet, riding in 40 degree temps with bare wet hands, they went numb quick. As i'm riding, I notice my hands are dripping blood all over the drops amd forks. I make it to the Washington crossing bridge and two bridge attendances are outside. i ask them for a band-aide and they come out with a gauze and tape. That held me over for the last three miles. I get to work and clean my act up and pretend like nothing happened. Moral of the story, don't facetime and ride.
 
huffster said:
@rlb
@Mountain Bike Mike

It looks like Mike may be a little short-changed. I would think his SUM of Points should be 110.33. Not a real game changer, but it caught my eye and since @liong71er is probably out riding 100 miles somewhere, every little bit helps.

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Nice catch.

@rlb Also noticed that my last two rides are in the ride data tab but aren't included towards the sum. Not that it matters, it's all in good fun, but this mere mortal has 64+ 😀
 
2/25

0:50-the best part of the upgrade: don't have to log a full hour

EDIT: were those last year's rulz? Guess this was a shutout, but I still had a great time.

https://www.strava.com/activities/879452168

More FMLA activities this morning, only got a shorty in before my date tonight. Saw two friends. Did almost all of Yellow, the step on Krams for the second time and climbed HT Voseller for the first time without dab. A full day.

February 2015 the ground was covered in snow.
 
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huffster said:
@rlb
@Mountain Bike Mike

It looks like Mike may be a little short-changed. I would think his SUM of Points should be 110.33. Not a real game changer, but it caught my eye and since @liong71er is probably out riding 100 miles somewhere, every little bit helps.

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Thanks for noticing. Something got messed up in the spreadsheet.
I need to take a closer look this evening when I get to a PC.
 
https://www.strava.com/activities/881016859/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1488143039
So I had work today but the plan was hatched Friday to get in an extra day to try and keep pace with @huffster and @JimN but as usual people don't like to show up for work all the time so I figured I was in for 12 hrs ,well for once I had a little luck some people showed up for a project and my fellow lead asked if any wanted to stay when done 2 said yes woohoo at least a half shift off! Did I mention we got 2-3 inches of rain yesterday? I figured church was my best bet and lucked out the bottom was soggy but once the trail went up top everything was bone dry, a febrewary miracle
2:02:something
Mukluk
Slack Tide 5 fathom (another new SJ brewery)
 
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