Oct-30: LT's short hill fun (modified)

LT is serving time being a fireman this weekend.  "Can you ride Friday afternoon?" asks he.  "Um, okay" say I.  Then we agreed to do essentially the same route we did one C-O-L-D day last December.

We expected dry, warm sunshine.  It was cool, humid, and overcast. 

It seems that many leaves are already "done" for this year. 

Today's course (the elevation on "veloroutes" includes some spurious readings on New Light crossing the lake, and on Old Weaver on one of the "lake crossings"):

http://veloroutes.org/bikemaps/?route=43055
 

[Edit Feb-24-2021:  "veloroutes" was never more than the hobby of someone.  When they got a good paying job somewhere, they essentially / eventually "abandoned" their hobby site.  As a result, the "veloroutes" maps are not as useful as they once were.  However, once can discern the routes and create "copies" in RWGPS, which is what I have done here:  "LT's short hill fun" route -- which, as far as I can figure, I only rode once:  i.e., the day / ride that this blog post is about.  I think I should adopt a goal to ride this route as part of a plan to get in shape for 2021 brevets (and other rides (?).)] 

 

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Last year, I drove 1000 miles from Illinois to Raleigh on the 29th and 30th, slept in the car in a rest stop in West Virginia or Virginia, drove straight to Blue Jay Point, and had the FASTEST solo ride I've ever had that was in excess of 20 miles.  One thousand miles.  Slept in the car.  No rest.  Fastest ride, solo, over 20 miles.  How??? 

Date _________start / course ____Miles_ H.mm_ avg mph

Oct-30-2008  "Time-Trial Course"  44.4 _2.31 _ 17.6         

 

[Edit Feb-24-2021:  The link for the immediately above "Time-Trial Course" is obviously to a map of the "TT"/cadence course plus two side-trips down and up Coley Rd.  I'll not create a RWGPS map for the complete route ridden Oct-30-2008 -- there are plenty of references, possibly including similar RWGPS-links scattered throughout this blog.] 

     

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Oct-30:

BJP: Woodlief-MangumDairy-BoldRunHill-CampKanata-SidMitchell-HughDavis-WoodlandCh-GrahamSherron-BG-RockSprings-OWT-G-P-MVC; w/ Lt. Dave; 44.3 m.; est 2573 ft climbed --> effort index = 70; 2hrs, 53min; 15.3 mph.

1st Qt. tot: 20 rides; 755.3 m.; 47 hrs, 31 min; 15.9 mph.
2nd Qt. tot: 43 rides; 2124.3 m.; 134 hrs, 59 min; 15.7 mph.
3rd Qt tot: 36 rides; 1947.2 m.; 121 hrs, 48 min; 16.0 mph.
Oct tot: 9 rides, 551.4m.; 35 hrs, 41 min; 15.4 mph.
YTD: 108 rides; 5378.4 m.; 340 hrs, 0 min; 15.8 mph.

Rolling 12-mos.: 124 rides; 6089.4 m.; 382 hrs, 55 min; 15.9 mph