“Ride #19: 500th Mile, New Highs”

I pedaled through this season's 500th mile today, the 19th ride. Last season I hit 500 miles on June 13th, so I'm lagging by about five days. On the other hand, that (last season) was ride 31, so I'm obviously training a lot harder this year (late start this season, and then lots of bad weather).

Other than barely breaking my highest average speed for the season, and reaching a new maximum speed (48 mph), this ride was uneventful.

Saturday I'm riding to John Woodward's house again, and then we're riding together from there to the ecclesial hall, and then I'm riding home. This could easily be my longest ride ever, I wouldn't be surprised if it's seventy miles. We'll see.

In preparation for this monster ride, I'm taking tomorrow off, riding hard on Thursday, and then taking Friday off (hopefully).

Stats: 31.34 miles (50.45 km) in 101' 22" for an average speed of 18.55 mph (29.86 kph).