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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 05-07-06, 03:06 PM
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To get in my ride yesterday i got my wife to go out to my parents (Roughly 30 miles away) and told her I would meet her there in about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. We leave at the same time and I take off. So I'm heading down the highway and look down at my heart rate and it's down to about 150bpm. So I think to myself wow, I can crank it up a bit. So i did. Ended up there in a little over an hour and a half and averaged 17.1mph. This is a personal best for me as I usually only avg about 15-15.5 mph on this ride. Conditions were pretty much the same as usual. Slight headwind, 70F, etc...

On a side note. Did 20miles today and averaged 14.1mph I swear it was a head wind no matter which direction I went. I hate wind.
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It is very satisfying to experience measurable improvements. Congrats.
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