Mar-30: "TT"

Mar-30:

BJP: DocN-Kemp-Virgil (i.e., my usual "TT" course); strongish WSW (?) wind; 29.6 miles, 1hr, 46min, 16.7 mph avg pace.

Jan tot: 2 rides, 96.0 m.; 6 hrs, 5 min, 15.8 mph.
Feb tot: 11 rides, 350.4 m.; 22 hrs, x min, 16.0 mph.
Mar tot: 7 rides, 308.9 m.; 19 hrs, 26 min, 15.9mph.
YTD: 20 rides, 755.3 m.; 47 hrs, 30 min, 15.9 mph.

The usual conditions for this course. Warming up into the wind on Pleasant Union Ch Rd and Carpenter Pond Rd. At the turn off Leesville Rd onto Doc Nichols Rd (12.4 miles), was avging 15.4 mph. 1.9 miles later (@ the turn onto Olive Branch), was avging 15.8. At 19.4 miles (Virgil / Carpenter Pond corner / turn), was avging 15.9 -- meaning the quartering tailwind on Virgil "climb" had helped me avg better than 16 mph on that section -- I deem that very good.

Final 10.2 miles in 33 minutes and some change; I was hoping to do that stretch in 32 minutes and change -- but my legs were feeling the last two days on top of the residuals of the chest cold -- and I should have pumped up the tires before the ride (instead of just "squeezing" them & deeming them okay) -- probably cost me that minute ;-) .