Sat Morning Ride

Met up with Bjorn at 6:00 AM and headed out. The plan was a two hour flat ride and then hook up with group to do a two hour hill ride... the reality...

So 67 (19.4 C) degrees out warmed up to 77 (25 C) with just over 50% humidity... it's summer in MN. We headed over to Minnehaha Park. Went north on Minnehaha Ave to the round about and then to the Ave back south... all the way to the Mendota Bridge (so through Fort Snelling, etc.) On the other side of the river we got on Old Hwy 13 and then on to the bike trail headed east. Turned around at Lillydale (I think) and reversed our route. From there we went all the way back to West River Road to the Greenway and too that west to Louisiana (Bjorn will have to confirm... forget how far west...) Then u-turned back to Nicollet where we were supposed to hook up with the other group. But... They never showed (waited 20 minutes or so, sigh.) So took Greenway back to West River Road to Minnehaha Park and then back home.

Good flat ride, though the 20 min. break was odd... At the end tried to ramp up the speed on a straight away but didn't have the legs to keep up with Bjorn when he passed me.

Stats -
Dist - 44.2 miles
Time - 2:40:26 (h:mm:ss)
Avg Speed - 16.53 mph (feel pretty good about that.)
Max Speed - 31.18 mph
kCal - 2106
Avg HR - 147 (need to exercise more...)
Max HR - 168 (while serving as Bjorn's 'lead out' man, yeah that's it.)
In Zone - 0:36:32 (h:mm:ss) (zone, what zone)

Tomorrow... early morning hill ride.