Ok, since I haven't seen any ride this year where I've broken 20 mph for an average pace I decided to come up with a new goal. I want to have one ride of at least 24 miles (basic daily route) on each of my road bikes that cracks the 19 mph avg. With today's ride included I've managed that with only 7 of them so far this year. I am slowing down I think.
The "qualifiying" rides so far:
May 29th, 26.56 miles, 1:21:56, 447ft Pinarello 19.5 avg pace
Jun 12th, 41.37 miles, 2:10:34, 554ft, Y-Foil 19.0 avg pace
Jun 13th, 41.41 miles, 2:10:23, 531ft, Kirk Fishlips bike 19.1 avg pace
Jun 26th, 40.58 miles, 2:06:49, 607ft, Team Z Lemond 19.2 avg pace
Jul 24th, 40.12 miles. 2:06:29 505ft, Duell 19.0 avg pace
Aug 1st 40.06 miles, 2:06:22 554ft, Klein 19.0 avg pace
Aug 24th 24.97 miles 1:18:06 538ft Opus III 19,2 avg pace
I really have to give credit to the Opus III today. I went out wanting to do a fast ride but the conditions did suck. Had to ride most of the first 14 miles into a brisk headwind. But the Opus fought it's way through the first half of the ride strongly and let me cruise in for the final half. Also had several "traffic" issues that easily cost me about 2 minutes on the ride. It really was faster than the avg shows.
So that's 7 of the 21 bikes I have that qualify for this challenge. Should be interesting. About half of the remaining bikes have done this easily in past years. Still don't have a long ride of any sort on the Softride I've been messing with and the old Scwinn 684 is a bit of a mess right now too. I think everything else should be able to pull it off under this fat old man. I wonder if I can even sneak the Guv'nor into this, that might take a perfect day to get there. Anyway, should be fun trying to get this done over the next month or so before the cold sets in.