He tossed the right turn in for the summer days. And day's are still getting longer.
Just got back to the office - grabbing the bag and a drink of water before trying to slog home into the bitching headwind. Big dark clouds too. Looks pretty ominous.
But my legs are buzzing, tingly, and cooked. As it was Paul S. and I avg from Atwells back to the bottom of Greenville only 19.5mph. But he put the screws into me a few times and even after his tough tempo coming up to tourletot hill I found something to come around and attack him with. We just kept laying punches. But he's fitter than I am and a good bit smaller and the elevation gain wasn't hurting him nearly as much as it was me.
Still it was fun, hard and felt great to be out there.
I really like the loop though. Cuts out one section of the ride I'm not wild about (snake hill - every time I'm on that stretch stupid Marcus bunny hopping the big grates comes to mind).
It was tough and a great ride.
I hope all you ninigret racers enjoyed that wind. ooof.
time for the cool down ride home, now that I'm at one of the highest points in PVD. Ugh. At least it is all mostly down hill (into the wind) home.
-G
So getting home it was wicked cold, the wind must have been in the 50s - it cooled down from 80 on the west side of town in the sun down to 61 when I got home. The wind off the water full of fog made it gorgeous riding but also pretty damp.
Oh and Paul got the reference when I said "My Button doesn't work!" I kept pushing the shifter but nothing happened, I needed the boost but it didn't work. It was still pretty funny.
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you know, we could put it to a poll and see if the team would like to replace snake hill with cutting over to 116 and coming back Winsor Ave to Greenville. Much nicer than Snake Hill Road, as long as people don't have a problem changing Mark's ride. The only other problem with that route is that there's a creepy cemetery on Winsor that scares Derdowski...so he might object, especially early and late in the season when we potentially get home after dark.
Let me just remind you that JONNY BOLD! is 180 pounds, or so he says. We all know bikers lie about their weight, so lets call it 185. He seems to get up the hills. Ok so he still has more watts than you, but we are talking about a group ride with other cat 4's, not a Cat 1 stage race.
There may be 205 pounds of you, but at least 185 pounds of that is MUSCLE. Compared to the 140 pound "little climber dude" who is only 126 pounds of muscle. And your frontal area on the drops is not 1.5 times larger than his. And on a climb the aero affect is negligible.
Sure you wont be able to accelerate with the small guys, but if you hold a hard tempo, you should be able to out watt them.
You need to get over the idea that you can't because of you size. I do not disagree that you can't, don't get me wrong, and I am right there with you (or behind you), but its not that its not doable.
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