California --the way life should be

Bikes, Bikinis, Beach and Bar---what a day.

Sandy, Sheri and RL in photo...

Set out on the bike early from Ventura to get in some not so hard mileage on the bike. Ventura to lake casitas, ojai and back. Of course it turns out to be one of the hottest days of the year so far...just the way I like it--no warmers and finally the chance to get some of those cyclists' tan lines going.

Ended at the beach, put on the bikini to enjoy the surfers and the dolphins. Beautiful day and the beach was packed with people and dogs; everyone was outside having fun!

Finished off the day with dinner and a cold one at the Irish pub.
Sweet!
RL

Ladies night

Sheri and I decided to enjoy some sunshine on a late afternoon ride today. Mulholland was breathtaking, green and there was a even a deer in the field below. What a great ride...then a picnic by the lake with some great wine and wonderful friends.

Life IS Good:)

Lots of Climbing and some surprise Cyclocross

Somehow the guys always seemed to have time for site seeing! (photo by gravityh)

A group of us headed out to the hills today lead by adventure racer friend; gravityh. H isn't the type of rider I can normally hang with...but he was going to ride a century or something before the ride to wear himself out a bit:) in order to ride with us. I intended on picking his brain about fueling for endurance. DN, RM and the pilot came along too.

My girl KG came along for her first long ride of the season and a chance to climb some news hills too. It was great to have her along; great company and we had a lot of fun. The photo is KG at the top of Piuma in black; I am, of course, in pink. The guys...well they are resting.

Piuma was as usual absolutely beautiful, that's one long hill that is worth every pedal stroke. Schruen gave us a suprise opportunity to practice some cyclocross where the road is being rebuilt. It was a blast navigating the rocks and dirt-- felt appropriate for the week of the one day classics; our very own Paris-roubaix...mini!

The best part was cresting that rough road to see a bunch of tough motorcycle types on the other side contemplating if they could make it through or not--didn't their jaws drop to see KG and I ride over on our road bikes:) Priceless laugh.

All in all we didn't get quite as many miles as planned but ended up with 42 and 5300 ft of climbing. It's all good when you get to spend the day out on the bike.

Time to get back to the hills once or twice a week now.

RL