Dec-23: "TT"

Last year, about this time, I did essentially this same ride much faster than I did today. 

Dec 24 PUE: DocN-Kemp-Virgil . . . 24.9 m. 1.26 h.mm 17.2 mph
Dec 25 PUE: Coley-DocN-Kemp-Virgil 32.2 m. 1.50 h.mm 17.5 mph 


I also did this ride much faster earlier this year (I don't recall why it was 0.2 miles longer then). 

Jul _9 BJP: Coley-DocN-Kemp-Virgil 37.1 m. 2.07 h.mm 17.5 mph 

Certainly it was warmer in July, and that should contribute a little to a faster pace.
Perhaps it was warmer last Christmas than this.  I dunno. 

Anyway, I got started later than I had hoped, and the milky-white stuff started to block the heat of good friend Sol, and when he started to dip lower toward the horizon, I decided to cut 7.3 miles from the intended course, and skedaddle back to BJP before the evening rush on Carpenter Pond materialized.

I lost a little ground on my plan to chase 10k km for the calendar year.  But after I entered today's ride in my Excel log, I found that (rounded to the nearest 1/10 of a kilometer) I have exactly 9,500.0 km so far this year.  Looks like I'll be needing to find about 10 "bonus miles" in the rides planned to finish out the year. 
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Dec-23:

BJP: Coley-DocN-Kemp-Virgil; 36.9 m.; est climbing 1542 ft --> effort index = 52; 2hrs, 20min; 15.8 avg mph.

1-Q tot: _20 rides; _755.3 m.; _47 hrs, 31 min; 15.9 mph.
2-Q tot: _43 rides; 2124.3 m.; 134 hrs, 59 min; 15.7 mph.
3-Q tot: _36 rides; 1947.2 m.; 121 hrs, 48 min; 16.0 mph.
Oct tot: __9 rides; _551.4 m.; _35 hrs, 41 min; 15.4 mph.
Nov tot: __8 rides; _372.3 m.; _23 hrs, 49 min; 15.7 mph.
Dec tot: __4 rides; _152.3 m.; __9 hrs, 54 min; 15.4 mph.

YTD tot: 120 rides; 5903.0 m.; 373 hrs, 38 min; 15.8 mph.