With a total elevation gain of 309 feet during this morning’s bike ride, it's now safe to call me “Mountain Man.”
To begin with, the first nine miles of today’s bike ride was spent escorting my wife while she ran around the parking lot of our neighborhood shopping mall. We left our home at 6 a.m. when it was still dark, so an escort by hubby was imperative. Plus, she likes me to carry her beverages on my bike so that she doesn’t have to wear one of those cumbersome belts that hold bottles.
I believe my average riding pace during the escorting was something like 5 mph, which accounts for my overall lame moving pace of 9.9 mph. I’m just a wee bit better and faster than what those numbers indicate. Just a wee bit!
Anyway, we did the usual coffee shop thing and then three of us, Tom, Sandy and I, took a different route towards home. The other three cyclists merely backtracked via our original route.
Lunatics that we are, we wanted to suffer even more in this relentless heat and humidity by riding up Vista View’s 8% gradient hill as training for Labor Day weekend’s Tour de Sebring – which has countless rolling hills.
After conquering the hill three or four times, we then headed home via Griffin Road and Flamingo Drive, both 45 mph roads with heavy vehicular traffic and good-quality bike lanes.
Nice ride with good people on what was my 41st cycling day in a row.
Oh, I forgot. I set personal records on two of my Strava segments. See, I told y’all I was a wee bit better than those 9.9 mph stats.
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