I biked with MapMyRide
Distance: 19.96mi
Time: 01:38:23
Pace: 4:56min/mi
Speed: 12.17mi/h.
http://mapmyride.com/workout/1068478831
It started “spitting” right as I left for my bike ride today but I really wanted to try and up my weekly mileage so I left anyway. Pretty consistently over the last couple weeks I have been doing 20-25 miles a week and thought it was high time I upped it to 30. It shouldn’t be hard to attain – a couple 5 mile rides during the week and a longer one on saturday.
However, as is always the case, I only got out twice this week so was down about 20 miles when I set out today. The first 3 miles are always the worst and I was thinking that I would only go 3 miles out today (10 round trip). But when I got to 3 miles I was feeling pretty good so I planned to go a bit farther even though the rain was coming down harder now. When I got to my normal 5 mile turn around point I will still feeling great and the rain hadn’t increased so I thought I would try to go for the full 20.
It was a trail I hadn’t been on for a while so I didn’t want to go too crazy lest I get lost. So when I made it to the next major road crossing and was still about 3 miles short I went with the “at least I tried” mindset. I also saw this women taking in the sites at the park in the drizzling rain and thought it was very pretty.
But on the way back I saw this sign for a canoe launch and was still feeling pretty energetic so I detoured. However it was pretty far to the trail end but a nice ride. Even with that I will still about 2 miles short when I was back at the turn off for my house. So now the rain is coming down harder but I really want to hit my goal so I went about 2 miles south down the trail. I figured this would surely be enough to get me a 20 mile ride today. It wasn’t. I ended back at my house rain-soaked and .05 miles short. Luckily my rides earlier in the week were enough to put me over my goal!
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