Sunny and characteristically windy Kingston day brought on a gathering of three....Me Fil and Frank with the goal to test the legs. I equate the first road ride to that first time on the ice for hockey tryouts...deepdown...you know ya got "tha goods", but you still need to get through the first session to re-assure yourself that you haven't plummetted into a deep dark spiral of non-fitness
After trying to rustle Fil and his gear together in time to meet Frank, sometimes it's like herding cats, we met up with Franky at Timmies..he was looking borderlined panicked with cellphone in ear and the sound of Fil's phone ringing as we rolled up. The usual banter from Fil....MAN, you need to get a new bike...ME: Why? I'm still climbing hard and pulling harder and until you can consistently Kick my Ass on that Cervelo R3....there's just no need ;) Some subtle trash talking and we were off.
This ride was supposed to be mellow and we...mostly...kept the mellow in the equation. A RRRrripin' tailwind all the way out Hwy 2 was a pure lift. A left at Deer Ridge, a Left on Joyceville side road, right on middle (holy sh*& climb), a left onto 15 and a roll back into K-town clocks us in to just over 50 k. Headwind was borderline....INSANE from Deer Ridge home but pace was not the priority for this ride. All in all a glorious ride:
2 hr 10 min
1421 cal/45% from fat
Max 179 or 96% with Avg of 139 or 74%
Hard: 48 min; Light 37 min; Moderate 43 min
Now....to address cadence and avg speed....looks like I need to send back my watch...a good time to do this is when I'm in Jamaica in T-minus 5 DAYS!!!!!!!!! Great plan.
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