Yesterday I went on my longest ride to date. It was sooo good to get out on my new bike! In the 3 years I have lived in Gainesville, I've always meant to bike the whole Hawthorne Trail, I've just never had the time or energy. I think the highlight of the ride was on my way back when I went past a bunch of Boy Scouts at ~18mph. I heard one of them exclaim "Whoa, that's a girl!" :-)I was trying to keep an average speed of about 16mph and I think I came pretty close. On the long straight stretches I was at about 19mph. Sadly there was a pretty decent headwind while I was going down my favorite hill (yeah, I live in Florida... I can count my favorite hills on one hand) so my max speed was only around 24mph. I will hafta test out my new bike's top speed another day.
I was pretty wiped when I got home and I know I've got lots of work ahead of me. If only my crazy schedule would calm down so I could get on the bike more often!
2 comments:
doesn't it feel great to do long rides that you didn't even feel were possible before? it is crazy how "easy" it starts feeling. 16mph is a crazy good average! i usually average around 13-14 or something (i am not really sure because i just realized that my computer has been underestimating.. i guess that's better than overestimating, though!).
dearest lisa,
my favorite "hill" = 8th avenue
my least favorite "hill" = the one on newell going up to campus past shands *shudders*
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