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Distance:
33.37 miles
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Altitude Gain:
1,473 ft
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Avg Speed:
16.96 mph
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Route:
Sullivinville
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Avg Grade: 0 %
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Max Grade: 0 %
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Max HR: 145 bpm
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Avg HR: 129 bpm
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Terrain: Road: Hills
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Bike: Look Blade RS 795 Iconic Ltd Road
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Club: Schuyler County Cycling Club |
| Weather Conditions: Sunny 79 F SE wind @ 8 mph |
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Rode the trainer for a couple of days as the weather was very unfriendly at least for my body now more accustomed to more temperate climes. Did one day of fairly easy spinning and the second ride at a harder pace with a little climbing. Legs were a bit sore today, but it was sunny and in the seventies so did a long incline with the two fast downhills at the end rather than climbing at the start. Headed out once again up the valley into a south headwind that was just barely in the single digits. After a mile of easy riding the soreness left my legs, and I put some pressure on the pedals and put out some decent watts for three or four miles. First ten miles is upgrade and still put out decent watts but couldn't get much speed out if the legs and occasionally bogged down on some of the short steeper sections. Made Johnson Hollow at fifteen four after losing out on the sixteen mile an hour pace that I was trying to maintain. Road flattens out at Pine Valley and picked up some good speed to Horseheads and headed out to SR 13 for a long shallow climb towards Sullivinville. Thought I would have a good tailwind after having the wind in my face for an hour, but it turned out to be a following cross. The Governor has declared war on potholes or some such electioneering and has the state crews out cold patching the holes. Unfortunately, the traffic kicks the small tar particles out of the holes, and it is swept off the road by traffic to eventually accumulate on the shoulders. So got to ride in quite a bit of roadside grit along the way. Was able to keep my fifteenish average up the seven mile one to two percent steady grade to the top of the hill above Alpine Junction. Was only able to go in the thirties on the downhill as the crosswind didn't seem to be helping much. Finally picked up a tailwind at the Junction and it got some good speed out of it to Odessa where I got another fast decent to Montour. Between the two downhills and the six miles of tailwind got the average up to seventeen that I was satisfied with. Won't be happy still I start getting back into the eighteens but hope to be there in May if the bad weather finally breaks.
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