10 miles of flat
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
I haven't been cycling in a while.
I was supposed to be at 500+ miles. I'm only reaching 350. What happened?
It's been great weather for the past week, and I decide to take advantage of it by going on a bike ride. If it's Wednesday, it's distance day. That means NCR trail. I've been twice this year. Each time making it to a different mile marker: 11 then 15. Now I aimed for 17 which will make it about 34 miles. Not the longest I've gone out this year, but it has been a while for a ride.
When you go north on the NCR it starts off slightly down hill. It's nice. About past White Hall, it levels out and around the 13 mile mark, it's uphill. I hate it, because I slow down. I'm going slower this year by about half an mph. I don't know why. It could be the 3 lbs I'm carrying or it could be the fact that I'm getting older and out of shape quicker. It's just so depressing. The slower you go the longer it takes you to get there.
So distance day is always trying to gauge comfort in the saddle. I hate it.
I make it to mile marker 17 and turn around. I'm cruising down the slight decline. The I notice a weird noise. The air is slowly leaking out over a mile. I'm just short of 13 miles. I'm short of Monkton. It plain sucks. No one has a pump. And when I do find some helpful guy, my tube is toast.
I huff it at 11 mph for the last 10 miles. It sucks. I have to get it fixed. The damage: 34 miles in 3 hours. The last hour is nothing but plodding on a flat.