Date of Ride: 3/3/2013
Type of Ride: DIY solo century
Actual Mileage: 96.1 mi
Altitude Gain: 5000 ft
Ride Time: 7:20
Total Time: 8:40
Weather conditions: overcast, mid to high 60's during the day, low 50's after dark
Route: north San Diego loop; Pomerado south, Kearny Villa, 52, Mast, Mission Gorge, Friars, Mission Bay, UTC, Miramar, Pomerado north
Notes:
* There's a convenient bike path parallel to the 52, separated from cars by a line of 2-foot-tall dividers. I'd normally think twice about riding on the 52, but dividers make it OK.
* Bike lane on the north side of Friars Road is closed roughly from Qualcomm Way to Mission Center Road due to some kind of massive construction next to the road. It is physically blocked off by these same dividers and there's a traffic sign "bicycles share the road". This would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. (We're talking about a road with 3 lanes each way without intersections, with a fair amount of traffic that moves at ~60 mph. I generally feel uneasy even riding in the bike lane there.) Pavement on the other side of the divider is trashed, broken in places, but still passable and far preferable to riding in traffic.
* They still haven't built the Regents Road bridge?
* Eastbound Miramar is seriously bumpy. I don't remember it being this bumpy. Either it got a lot worse since the last time I passed there (probably no later than 2008) or my bike is much stiffer than before.
* I'm quite surprised that I can maintain 200 W for minutes at a time after 8 hours in the saddle.