How many miles did you run today?

[FlyingMonkey]

I've given in and bought a pair of Saucony Kinvara (the model before the current one, on sale, as usual!) for my mid-range runs; I've got the Brooks Ghost for my long runs and I'm going to reserve my Brooks Asteria for the fast stuff.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

This was the first day it's really like spring here this year: it was actually warm, the frogs in the marshes were very loud, the woodpeckers were busy, and there was that unidentifiable something in the air...

I was supposed to do 26.7km / 16 1/2 miles, but my right knee and hamstring started to hurt around the 11k mark, so I went straight back (21.6km / 13 1/2 miles) and cut out the extra loop. 5:33/km pace. I think a few days off is in order.

 

[Dusty Heaters]

I live in a mid-town like residential area with single family homes on 1/2-3/4 acre plots of land. The shelter-in-place mandate coupled with comfortable spring temps have brought the people out in droves. I’ve been heavily subsidizing my running with virtual cycling in effort to do a part. It’s not for fear of contracting the illness, it’s inadvertently passing it to someone else that has me worried. Knowing my luck, I’m probably an asymmetric carrier. The last thing I would want is to impact a little kid or someone my senior. Things are getting pretty rough out there for us Americans. This too, shall pass.

 

[Fueco]

5.1 miles on the local trails with the dogs. I kept altering my course to avoid running by too many people. There weren’t a ton out, but more than usual out enjoying a partly cloudy afternoon with temps in the low 60s.

 

[Fueco]

I did a quick 5km run on the road, thinking I'd see fewer people that way. Wrong... I passed about 50 cyclists, only one of whom was wearing a mask. Anyway, it's a beautiful day out there, with temps in the upper 60s.

 

[sugarbutch]

I live in a mid-town like residential area with single family homes on 1/2-3/4 acre plots of land. The shelter-in-place mandate coupled with comfortable spring temps have brought the people out in droves. I’ve been heavily subsidizing my running with virtual cycling in effort to do a part. It’s not for fear of contracting the illness, it’s inadvertently passing it to someone else that has me worried. Knowing my luck, I’m probably an asymmetric carrier. The last thing I would want is to impact a little kid or someone my senior. Things are getting pretty rough out there for us Americans. This too, shall pass.

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Tell us about your hoss, @Dusty Heaters

 

[Dusty Heaters]

Tell us about your hoss, @Dusty Heaters

Sure, I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my old man and my son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.

Kidding aside, it’s a Specialized S-Works Tarmac. Disc, Dura-Ace Di2, Rapide CLX40 wheels, Favero Assoma Duo pedals, Garmin 530 computer. Weighs in under 16lbs road ready. Really happy with it — much more bike than I have talent.

 

[Fueco]

19.25 pounds (steel frame with SRAM Force/Rival drivetrain) off-road ready. Pulling 100 pounds of trailer, kids and gear makes for a harsh workout.

 

[Dusty Heaters]

Bitchin’ setup @Fueco - love the rig and how clean you keep that thing.

 

[sugarbutch]

That really is a lot of bike!

Steel is real, eh @Fueco?

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I'm just getting my bikes sorted out for the season...

This is my speed machine: Planet-X Stealth full carbon 650c (because I'm very small):

This was just after I built it up - 8 years old now, but still fabulous. I also have a steel workhorse (and also from Planet-X - it's a company that was just down the road from where I used to live in England) and an alu-carbon race thing (the one in the photo I posted a couple of weeks back), a Brompton folder, a spike-tyred winter beast, an XC racer machine, currently in bits, and parts for several others...

 

[Fueco]

Bitchin’ setup @Fueco - love the rig and how clean you keep that thing.

Its only clean because one of my quarantine boredom projects the other day was cleaning bikes.

 

[sugarbutch]

My rain dance was super effective on Friday afternoon. Cleaned my bike (including a full chain degrease and relube), and it's been raining all weekend.

My main bike is a 2019 Specialized Tarmac Sport Disc with Shimano 105. Not as fancy as Dusty's, but I love it. When I was still commuting, I used a ten-year-old aluminum Felt.

 

[Fueco]

My rain dance was super effective on Friday afternoon. Cleaned my bike (including a full chain degrease and relube), and it's been raining all weekend.

My main bike is a 2019 Specialized Tarmac Sport Disc with Shimano 105. Not as fancy as Dusty's, but I love it. When I was still commuting, I used a ten-year-old aluminum Felt.

After I cleaned four bikes (all of mine plus my wife’s mountain bike (I didn’t feel the need to clean the bike that’s on the trainer)), I cleaned our van knowing full well that it was going to snow the next day. Boredom does that to you. My road bike is a Look 595 with a one-off paint job and my mountain bike is a Giant Anthem Advanced 27.5 1. So yeah, two carbon bikes and a steel rig. I really wish I hadn’t sold my old Bianchi fixie (San Jose) before we moved.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

really wish I hadn’t sold my old Bianchi fixie (San Jose) before we moved.

I love those Bianchi SS / fixies. I have a crappy old steel SS which still has slighly bent forks from when I crashed it hard once... and I've often thought it would be nice to have a Bianchi to replace it.