Friday, February 13, 2009

Feb-13: Honeycutt Park "TT"

Feb-13:

Honeycutt Park: Honeycutt-Norwood-MVC-Coley-DocN-Kemp-Virgil-MVC-Norwood-Honeycutt; STRONG westerly wind; 45.2 miles; est 2073 ft climbed ---> effort index = 65; 2 hrs, 57 min; 15.3 mph avg pace.

Jan tot: 2 rides, 96.0 m.; 6 hrs, 5 min.
Feb tot: 5 rides, 167.0 m.; 10 hrs, 24 min, 3 sec.
YTD: 7 rides, 263.0 m.; 16 hrs, 29 min, 3 sec.

Since the Saturday ride is likely only going to be 25 or 30 miles because of the weather, and just in case the Saturday weather is uncooperative, I went for a Friday ride thinking to take advantage of nice temps. Hah! The theme of the ride was: wind, wind, wind.

The wind beat the dickens out of me. The headwind heading southwest on Carpenter Pond was spirit-breaking. I had no spirit left to ride the four climbs at the end. Despite that, I think I rode the climbs just as fast as if I had had plenty of energy left. What does that indicate?

No comments:

Post a Comment