Recovery Ride

Today PyZahl needed to get out and back on his bike

for a litte recovery ride.
He just went to the Wading River Beach
and refreshed the legs in crystal clear sea water.

Looks very tempting to take a full bath,
but need a few more warm days to get comfortable...


This was the warm-up and recovery test ride,
he felt quite alright and started the GPS at that point,
and to get a little warmer he did a few laps in the area and 5 laps around
and over the Duck Pond hill followed by easy a cool down ride back home.


That done, a little BBQ with friends can not be too bad to finish off the day...

things just happen

Beside PyZahls little stupid crash into some of these moving and suddenly almost invisibly stopping steel road obstacles... he had a good ride today and will take Sunday off for recovery.





The Ride Data.

PS: PyZahl should do more MTB, trees and other obstacles are more reliable and not moving unexpectedly ;-)

What about this: some cool movies from some of my friends over there


... all work and no play is no good at all -- ride :D bikes ... -- PyZahl.net

Track your buddies

This is made for dogs, but ma be cool also to track you buddies in the maze of woods :-o

http://www8.garmin.com/astro/

Green-Yellowisch "Nanoparticle" Contamination

These days the winds over the island are blowing these tiny sticky green-yellow particles all over. Luckily PyZahl had not any real trouble with that, but still, the combination of dust, dirt sand and sticky pollen making his eyes even covered by quite good and aerodynamic wind shedding prescription sun glasses little itchy -- may be will try to slip on his ski goggles for the next ride.

Nevertheless today was the We night hill ride day and it was a good one!

Bloomin' Metric Ride

[[Saturday night some weather debates were going on at the SBRA Phorum according to Sundays ride conditions, PyZahl could not really understand that -- little chance of rain was on the forecast, so what???]]
This Sunday some of the Birds flew over to CT with that so slow ferry boat to participate in the 30th annual Bloomin' 2007 Metric organized by Sound Cyclists. So PyZahl got up very early at 4:45 to get a good breakfast and get ready for the ride of the first section from his home to the Port Jeff Ferry dock to catch the 7am boat. He took the most scenic (and hilly) route via harbor hills east of Port Jeff.

He got there with plenty of time, well, better than having some trouble on the road and missing it... so bird by bird came in... and we entered the boat and took off on time -- PyZahl was wondering and missing one rider -- nothing to do about it.

A second Coffee on board, some chatting and they arrived at Bridgeport:


They rode the little bumpy way out of the not so magnificent city and merged on the marked 100km route, mostly very nice rolling and smooth roads meandering along water reservoirs and some nice small rivers including waterfalls and mini cascades, a very little mountain feeling comes to PyZahls mind and he moves up and down the rolling terrain at a good pace having fun flying by many other riders. Was there one going faster at all? He be leaves not, but one he was hanging on for a while but dropped back to his group...


He last (and first) food stop was well stocked, as all the others have been :-)
PyZahl eat some goodies at every stop and felt really good riding well fueled.

And the weather, yes, it was just fine, nothing to complain, little wet road in the very beginning, but then it got plenty of warm and turned into a great day -- can it be any better this time of the year?

Days odometer total: 150km.

(CLICK FOR A MAP, note: statistics are messed up by the ferry trip)

(Cleaned up data, Bloomin' ride only)

Here is our the Metric ride in numbers:

Wildlife at the Laboratory

The spring blooming colors are changing, now white is more dominant.

The Canadian Geese are almost all happily strolling all over the area and the gooselings are growing fast and almost lost there yellow feathers or plush or so...


This seams to be a happy family :-) As others seam not so lucky with there hatching, as for PyZahls nonunderstanding, some eggs were "regulated" by humans :-(

Review on Bloomin' Season

As PyZahl rode to the Laboratory many of the great spring days he cound not resist stopping and taking a few shots at the Duck Pond.



This was last Sunday, the birds Deli stop at Cutchogue

at about half way of the Birds North flight route.