A few days ago I wrote that I could identify three generic reasons why my longest ride quartile had a faster avg pace than the three shorter quartiles. There are more than three including that (a) the short rides tend to be a mix of intense faster rides and OMG recovery rides and (b) I often take 2 hours or even 40 miles to warm up and start pedaling; however, I will stick to the "three" alluded to previously.
1. Five mountain rides.
Three mountain rides fit in the shortest quartile; two fit in the second quartile. Five rides, avg distance 28.9 miles, avg pace 12.7 mph. Avg amount of climbing on the mtn rides = approx 109 ft per mile. (The avg climbing north of Raleigh is about 45 ft per mile.) (All climbing estimates developed using "veloroutes.org".)
2. Four "mechanical rides" / "riding with slower friends" rides.
All four ride fit in the shortest quartile. Four rides, avg distance 17.9 miles, avg pace 14.3 miles.
If I remove the above 9 rides from the data-base, and let the quartiles "re-sort" themselves, the following emerges:
Quartile Report of Short to Long Rides -- Mtn, "slow-friend" and "mechanical" rides removed:
. . miles . . . # rides . tot miles . tot hrs . avg mph . avg miles
.LT., = 30.0 . . 27 . . . . 667.8 . . . 40.9 . . 16.3 . . . 24.7
30.0 - 47.1 . . .27 . . .1,064.3 . . . 67.0 . . 15.9 . . . 39.4
47.1 - 69.9. . . 28 . . .1,638.2 . . .103.7 . .15.8 . . . 58.5
69.9 - plus . . . 27 . . .2,234.8 . . .140.4 . .15.9 . . . 82.8
total . . . . . .. 109 . . .5,605.1 . . .352.1 . .15.9 . . . 51.4
That is much more in line with what I would expect. Notice that the longest quartile of rides is still "pretty fast" (for me). Why is that?
3. Fast "irregulars" to pull me along on the longer rides.
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