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Distance:
11.10 miles
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Altitude Gain:
328 ft
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Avg Speed:
14.33 mph
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Route:
Watkins
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Avg Grade: 0 %
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Max Grade: 0 %
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Max HR: 0 bpm
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Avg HR: 0 bpm
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Terrain: Road: Flat
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Bike: Look 585 Carbon Road
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Club: Schuyler County Cycling Club |
| Weather Conditions: Sun\Cloud 62 F SW wind @ 7 mph |
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Distance:
63.00 miles
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Altitude Gain:
2,747 ft
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Avg Speed:
15.59 mph
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Route:
Corning River Road
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Avg Grade: 0 %
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Max Grade: 0 %
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Max HR: 0 bpm
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Avg HR: 0 bpm
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Terrain: Road: Rolling
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Bike: Look 585 Carbon Road
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Club: Schuyler County Cycling Club |
| Weather Conditions: Sun\Clouds 65 F SW wind @ 15 mph |
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Probably should have been a short easy ride with a hard race coming up tomorrow but it looked to be a really nice day for riding and possibly the last good day for riding in the next five or six days if the forecast holds true. The warm sun had me heading out to Corning as a really strong wind was blowing out of the Southwest. If I could master the wind for twenty miles though the pay back would be 20 miles of a following crosswind and another twenty of strong tailwind. Went to Watkins to climb the easy hill rather than going up the rather steepish hospital hill as I wanted to keep climbing to a minimum today with the Hillbender coming up tomorrow. Still had to strain the legs though to get up the easy climb on SR 414 South. The hill is a typical highway climb probably only averaging five or six percent for a mile and a half. I can still recall time trialing this hill a few years back and averaging fifteen miles an hour on it while today I could barely maintain seven. There was a strong headwind up the climb as well as the fact that the memories were formed twenty years and twenty-five pounds ago. Got over the climb eventually and the once topping out at the ten or eleven mile mark the next fifty is downgrade with the exception of the small climb by the drive in on 352. Sun disappeared at the top of the climb and it got darker as I neared Corning and I thought it might be another wet one. Clouds threatened for the remainder of the ride until I crested the ridge in Pine Valley and descended into the Northland where the sun was actually shining again. Pretty uneventful ride as the terrain is pretty flat and it is just grind the miles off at a steady cadence. Usually try to hammer back down SR14 to the finish but really felt like I was out of gas after the first forty miles and just coasted in the sunshine and tailwind and enjoyed the day.
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