We had 12 cyclists for a 55 mile ride today. The group included Martin, Joe, Heidi, Dave, Felix, Tom, Herb, Rob, Clay, Cons, Jay and me. It was a Panera to Panera ride with a loop around Ascension Cemetary. The ride was almost as fast as Saturday's ride, despite a bunch of us having tired legs from yesterday's ride. Clay in particular was really pushing the pace and did a number long hard pulls. The biggest reason that today's ride was not as fast as yesterday's ride is due to our riding along with a group from Vision Quest. They passed us at a stop light on Waukegan road, but slowed us down a bit as they were riding at a 22 mph pace. Yesterday, when we got mixed in with the Plaza Group, they pulled us along at a 26 mph pace.
Kudos to Heidi for getting stronger as the ride progressed. She was part of the lead pack on the sprints during the later sections of the ride.
The weather for the ride was again spectacular. It was a little chilly at the start of the ride, but the sun came out and we were stripping off layers on the way north. A bonus feature of the ride is that going north we were riding into a gentle breeze. It picked up by a couple of mph as we were heading into it and helped push us home.
My average speed for the ride today was higher than yesterday, so were the top speed and peak power. All in all a very good ride. Heidi is the "H" bomb as Fisher Price boy said ;-) Randy could have used the new nicknames everybody got today.
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