Friday -- Australia Day!
Today we cycled our
January Century ... 100 miles!
We had to wait till the end of January to do our January Century which meant that it has been almost 7 weeks since we've done a century, and my longest ride since then was the 63.7 km last weekend. Meanwhile Rowan has been working rather than cycling. So this was a bit of a challenge!
The first challenge was trying to find a relatively flat, unchallenging route. In the Hobart area?? Hahahaha! But what we ended up with was probably one of the flatter options for a ride of that length without too much route duplication ... believe it or not.
The second challenge was that we also wanted to complete a Permanent (ride on the Audax list) for the Petit Year Round Randonneur challenge. We've kept that challenge going for 15 months now. Fortunately, Permanents can be as short as 50 km.
So we decided to ride the flattest 50 km Perm in the area, then immediately upon finishing it we returned the way we came and went quite a bit further out then returned to the start. Essentially it was two out-and-backs, one short and one long.
In one direction, we were able to keep up a pretty good pace with the tailwind ... in the other direction, things slowed a bit. But it kind of balanced out and we actually finished the ride within Audax time!!
The temp hit a high of 28C and the wind spent most of the day at about 22 gusting to 30 km/h with the occasional gust up to 50 km/h.
Distance: 161.83 km (100.5 miles)
Elevation: 1,702 m (5584 feet)
Yeah ... that's relatively flat for the Hobart area.
Moving Time: 8:35:23
Elapsed Time: 10:07:06
Speed: Avg: 18.8 km/h | Max: 54.0 km/h
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