Chicks that ride 65 miles...

...in the heat.   It was HOT HOT HOT on Saturday, but with Amtrak fast approaching we needed to get the miles in.   We decided to join the OCW Saturday ride, for a flat ride from Irvine through Orange County and Long Beach to the San Gabriel River Trail then to the coast by Shoreline Village and along the beach and PCH back to Huntington Beach, by Back Bay and back to Irvine.

Normally on a day with this kind of hot forecast we would forgo a ride.  But you never know what the weather will be like on the day of the Amtrak so we may as well train in all kinds of conditions.

Everyone brought two water bottles each and snacks.   Even the riders that tend to drink very little on rides ended up going through bottles and refilling several times.  We made one stop at a Del Taco who filled us up with ice and water and then another stop along Huntington Beach so we could stretch and get out of the sun for a bit.  One last stop at a Jack 'n the Box to fill our bottles again.  Seems that fast food places are very accommodating when you aren't needing to use their paper/plastic cups.

There were no mechanicals and this made for Becky's and Karen's longest ride to date.   Ask them both about that last overpass over the 405 fwy just before we made it back to the square where we started our ride.

We don't ever want to ride in that kind of heat again but at least we've done it and know what it takes.  Let's hope this week provides a break in the temperatures so we can continue our training.  There is a rumor that we might see Stacy and Jeri out again.