A Breezy Tempo Ride

It's been a BEAUTIFUL weekend, and I got out for a long-ish ride yesterday. I found the trail around 35E and Shepard to be closed, so now I don't have a great way to get onto Big Rivers Trail, which is stinky. (I back-tracked to take the Hwy 5 bridge to the Mendota Bridge, but that requires walking your bike down and up 60 steps before and after that bridge.)

I went hard for 20 miles, which was a bad idea, as the ride mainly starts by heading south and there was a strong wind from the south. So I knew my time wouldn't be great. But I could still suffer. And I ran into that construction which threw me for a loop.

I was at a 19.3 mph average around mile 13 when I turned around south of 494. Then I turned with the wind at my back, but still had that big climb to do on Big Rivers near 494 with about 5 miles left. I was able to raise my average to 20.2 mph by the time I was back on Water Street. Here's a map of my ride, and note that I accidently took a LAP on my Garmin instead of STOPPING my Garmin early on, so mile 20 was at split #5:

Finally WITH the wind from the southern-most point through split #5.


My speed shows nothing dramatic. Red arrow is hitting mile 20 and easing up.
(You can see the speed before that red arrow when I finally had the wind at my back!)


Heart rate. Again, the arrow shows when I let up.

Nothing fancy on this ride, just a nice way to get in 35 miles.