Training ride tomorrow morning (9/6/09).....anyone?

Hope your ride was great.  i took off this AM for a 57 miler with a 1 mile swim in the middle.

I just got back home. The ride was just as I expected it to be...........tough. Ended up doing 70 miles and we averaged 16.1 mph. I was a little dissapointed with that, but the hills are crazy up in that area (to me anyways). I can see that I have a lot of work to do on the bike.

Brue, sounds like a great workout!

Let me know if  you're doing this again later this season. If you go in the the next week or two I might come along.

70 MILES! on hills none the less -wow.  don't forget that when your not in a race you have to slow down for stop signs and traffic which brings down avg speed -probably more than the hills.

Dave, i'll definitely let you know.

Brue, I guess the word "hill" is relative, but I will say that on the way out, there was one hill that we got up to 44 mph going down. That's what my computer said anyways. The other guys were saying their computers were reading 46 mph. I rode an abreviated version of the course we rode today last November. On the way back I was walking my bike up that same hill during that ride. However, today I rode it. I was in the small ring, granny gear, but rode it none the less. The majority of the hills were on Sycamore Rd. I'm pretty sure it's a popular course because our entire route was marked with arrows on the pavement.

There were 6 of us riding today. Myself and one other guy were the weakest riders of the group. He dropped totally out of the ride at mile 40, so I was left to be the weakest link. I was able to keep them in sight, but they dropped me on every hill. Those guys ride that course all the time, which i'm sure makes a difference.