I got some padded shorts last week, which was definitely a good move. Things were already painful enough last weekend after a 39 mile ride. This week I went for 45 miles on the same route and felt pretty good through the whole thing. Well, I felt like I was going to keel over and die after 40 miles, but at least my ass wasn’t in pain too.
The stats: 45 miles, average speed 13.1 mph (half a mph better than on last week’s 39 mile ride!), max speed 27.6 mph again (downhill of course), riding time 3h23, total time something like 4 hours.
Once you get off the bike path, people get a lot friendlier. I got a bunch of nods from other cyclists biking around Carlisle. While struggling my way up at 8-9 mph what the CRW site describes as a “mild rolling” hill I even got a big smile and a wave.
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