This morning’s bike ride included just about every kind of riding imaginable, some of it slow and some of it fast. Between the horse trails, walking paths, grassy knolls, broken sidewalks, residential streets, busy intersections, parking lots and the massive construction project along Interstate 595, finishing up with a good overall pace is next to impossible.
To begin with, I must ride on sidewalks for over two miles at an average pace of 8 mph just to get to the meet up spot. At one point, a school crossing guard safely gets me across the bumper-to-bumper traffic.
And then there’s the solo ride from the car park back to home, which is another two miles at an incredibly slow pace. Counting those four miles, it’s just about impossible to (truthfully) log a ride with a decent pace. And I do include those four miles on all my rides.
Anyhow, I just wanted to hit upon the pace thing so my DM friends don’t think that I’m ET returning home on his antiquated bicycle. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (often referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg,
The average temperature during this morning’s urban ride was a comfortable 81F. The wind, which seemingly was always in our faces, was around 14 mph. A pesky wind velocity is fairly common in South Florida. Take away our wind, however, and this place would be one miserable place to live because of the heat and humidity.
This was a fun ride with Sandy, Tom, Ed, Scott, Greg, Doug and Stephen.
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