Didn't expect a hard ride today. I emailed friends and my team to see if anyone wanted to do a moderate paced hundred miles. Amy emailed me last night and said she'd show. It wound up being just the two of us. We took off heading into the wind, which got stronger and stronger as the day progressed. We got lucky though, because the wind was blowing much harder when we turned and had it at our backs. After yesterday's soupy stormy weather, today's sky was arrogantly showing off it's blue. The cloud's white, the sky's blue and earth's green were so crisp and defined it almost hurt to look at them.
Our first turn out of the wind, at about 35 miles, pointed us north. The crosswind was welcomed relief. We endured for about 10 miles turned east at Watertown and the remainder of our route was all about wind power. We were flying low to the ground.
It felt like we'd been riding at a pretty good clip, and even Amy said it seemed like we'd managed the head wind well. I took a look at our average speed and we were at 19.8mph, and we still had some 20 miles to go and it was all tailwind. Amy didn't say anything, but I could tell she was interested in bumping that average up a couple of tenths. We really didn't change the way we were riding, but I did pay a little more attention to our current speed making sure we were up well over 20mph. 27, 28 and even 30mph was pretty common now, as we hummed along County Road 6. When Amy peeled off by her place we'd brought the average up to 20.1. Amy had a few more miles on than I did, but I was at about 90.
What a great ride! 102/20.1
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