Short Quickie

Tonight i decided after dinner that i would get a quick ride in. I thought i would go out across the Wrightsville bridge and back. I was annoyed that i didn't get any riding in the morning, so i figured i'd make the most of the evening ride, and keep the hammer down.

My first mistake was forgetting my inhaler, not that i require it, but my lungs defiantly tightened up. Yeah i figured that cost me some speed.

It amuses me to play games while i'm riding, tonight's game required me to see if i could get to the bridge with an average speed of 20 mph. Well I got to the end of the bridge with a speed of 19.5. Not bad, probably could have done 20 with the inhaler.

What really pisses me off, because i'm a guy with pride, and testosterone, is when someone just spanks you. I was heading towards the bridge, moving at a good clip when i passed a gent that had just turned on 462. He had a yellow jersey and was riding a FELT. Now i passed him on a descent at about 39 mph. I didn't pay him any attention. A few minutes later I'm climbing one of the rollers, and he goes past me like i'm going backwards. I'm like you've got to be shitting me. So I decided that my best option was to pull a Rasmussen and pull him back in.

Well that didn't happen, i was able to match his speed, and if it were a race, at least I would have controlled the damage. He turned off in Wrightsville prior to the bridge, so it would have been interesting to see if i could have paced him across it. oh well i'll be fast next time.

I turned around and headed home. i did the 17 miles in under an hour. although my computer showed an average speed of 16.8, It had to be faster as i did the 17.22 miles in 59 min.

Anyway, good just to be out tonight, even if it was short.

The nice thing about motionbase.com is that you can easily see improvements.

Earlier this year on June 4th i did the same ride.
Avg speed 14.2

Today

Avg Speed
17.5

Not to shabby.

Anyway, i've got to adjust my heart rate monitor as that was really flaky today, perhaps i'll add a new battery to it.

Here are the details of today's ride.