We turned in a 58-mile ride this morning, on what was probably out best day of riding yet.
I wasn’t sure what to expect today, after spending much of the week on a mountain bike in Moab. But as it turns out, as different as mountain biking is from road riding, it seemed to do the trick in terms of covering my training this week.
It felt like our strongest effort of the last two months as we easily averaged 18 mph.
I finally broke the 40 mph barrier hitting 43 mph on the Military Road Hill entering Orting. But I have a long way to go to catch Russ Meyers who has touched 50 mph on several occasions on the hill. Not sure I have the nerve for that.
A visitor joined us for the ride, but we lost him after just 10 miles when he got a flat. He then popped two tubes trying to fix the flat so he decided to call it a day.
Pedaling nearly 60 miles starts to give you an idea of what the ride day will be like. Some of us had sore legs (maybe all of us, actually), I had a sore neck and another rider had sore crotch from spending all morning in the saddle.
These are all common issues cyclists have to deal with. The best way to deal with these pains? Keep riding.