Originally Posted by
balto charlie
NR: Your trip to OC is a maybe but that's a long MF. What was it, 130? Then a 18MPH ride(or faster), then a return?
It's 189 miles one way if you take the more scenic route that goes past the wild life refuges along the coast. Also, there's an extra 20 miles due to the crossing at the Conowingo Dam. When I planned the ride, I wasn't attempting to travel the straightest/fastest way from point A to point B.
If there are more people, we can use each other to block the wind for each other--usually it comes from the South, so it'd be a headwind going toward OCMD--usually.
My average moving speed against the headwind was in the 15 MPH +0/-1 range.
The return didn't occur until the following Sunday. If the 4th falls on a Saturday this year, I would take time off from work and leave on Wednesday or Thursday, instead.
Originally Posted by
HC203
If you intrepid commuters are out there today then you are truly my heroes!
This commuter hasn't been on his bike in 2 days!
I'm going through endorphin withdrawl.
Originally Posted by
maxine
NoRacer, I am sooo tempted by a July 4th ride to O.C., and because the 4th is a Saturday this year, we get the 3rd off as a holiday. I may have to work, though -- I think some other people in the office might be taking leave around that time. Have to ponder that further.
Let me know. The more the merrier!