Holy smokes did Aaron make me work today, and it was... awesome!! (Aaron I know I said this a bunch of times but thanks again, that ride was great.) I achieved a major goal, with Aaron pushing me to go faster, get from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and return in one ride, we did it at a fast pace - average speed about 29km/h and literally everything went almost perfectly. I wish more people had come out, but other than that it was entirely great, the weather was almost perfect (albeit we had a nasty headwind on the way home), the roads were mostly clear and we were really booking it. I used my father-in-law's old camera for the first time, well Aaron worked it, he did not want to be in any pictures, he's camera shy. ;) I will post some pictures later on but here is the route and some statistics as gathered up from the Garmin.
(I forgot to hit start on the GPS until I got to Pape and Dundas so I am missing about 5km, but clearly our goal was achieved.)
First the high resolution route, or lower resolution see below:
And here are the statistics:
Total distance (according to the GPS, so add about 3~5km): 199.6km.
Heart rate (avg/max): 141/224 (uh - oh!)
Speed km/h (avg/max): 29.3/60.1
Calories: 8111 (Well holy, no wonder we were so hungry!)
Maybe I'll go to one of the local bakeries and buy a nice cake for desert tonight, to think if I eat the whole thing I'll probably still need another 5000 calories or so (I am assuming all the granola and hammer gel and lunch gives me 1000 Calories.)
Anyway pictures to follow in the days to come.
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2 comments:
Glad to be there...
Did you make the Sunday ride?
-A.
Yes I did actually, I was not very impressive, as you might expect but I did alright. Here is what I wrote in the BCC blog:
By any chance did someone stick some rocket fuel in my water bottle when I wasn't looking? I don't know quite what hit me on the way home but somewhere around Unionville I felt like I could have done a second return trip to Lake Simcoe. Sorry I was pretty much useless up until then.
Here are my stats:
3474 Calories
88.18km
3hr 10min
27.8km/h (avg) 57.8km/h (max - Kingston Rd on the roller towards Pickering)
Incidently the ride to Simcoe I burned 8111 Calories so by total effort it is only twice the work of this ride - anyone willing to join me if I do it again?
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