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I've Got Something to Say
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| Ride Stats |
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Time: 01:42:52
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Distance:
30.00 miles
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Max Speed:
26.70 mph
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Avg Speed:
17.50 mph
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Altitude Gain:
0 ft
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Route:
Monday Night Ride in St Charles
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Weight:
235
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Category: training: general -
solo
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Terrain: Road: Flat
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Bike: Fuji Newest Road
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Club: None |
| Weather Conditions: 91 degrees
Wind: SW11
Humidity: 34%
Sunny, with clouds rolling in late
Sunset: 8:21 |
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To start at the beginning, I was a bit dismayed when I got to my truck, to leave work and head for the start location of tonight's ride, and noticed the rear tire of my bike was flat. I just put a new tube & tire on Friday night, and did 35 miles on it Saturday afternoon, and didn't notice any problems this morning when I rolled the bike out of the garage and to the truck to load it up before I left for work. OK, fine. I got in the truck and conceeded that I would just have to fix it when I got to the starting point of the ride. The puncture was on the inside side of the tube...not sure, other the the higher heat (temp 90+, plus the sun bearing directly on it all afternoon) caused some expansion and something in the rim tape or the spoke nipple just nicked the tube. Well, I applied a patch and put the tire back together.
I ended up leaving the parking lot just a few minutes before 6, so I didn't get much of a lead on the 'peleton'. They started passing me just a few miles into the ride, as we where heading down Washeon. It was a tailwind for that section, so I was already doing 19-20 mph. As they passed, there were a few other slower riders I was trying to pass, too, so I did my best to pass the sloweer ones and hang onto the back of the peleton. Well, I looked down and I was doing 25-26 mph, and I was loosing ground to the peleton. There wasn't anything I could do to catch up, let alone stay with them if I caught them. Suffice it to say, that is were I registered my max speed tonight. Plus, my avg speed was sitting at 19.1 when I made the turn at the halfway point; the turn that was now putting me into a crossing headwind and a more direct headwind on the return segments.
The main lowlight of the ride was coming up on an abulance that had just arrived at a bike crash - just a couple hundred yards past Reese going west on Portage Rd. A few cyclist (not in the peleton) bumped wheels as they were drafting, and one guy went down and the guy behind him rolled over him. The down guy suffered a broken collar bone, but otherwise was reported to be OK.
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