The Workout: 54 mile Group Ride
This ride went really well. I wasn't fatigued much from the ride the day before and it was a really great group of guys to ride with. The weirdest thing happened on the ride though. Ok, maybe not THE weirdest... but pretty strange. I'll just say I've never experienced it on a group ride before.
There the 6 of us were just rolling along. We came upon a group of cyclists who were just clipping in and starting to roll out. There were maybe a dozen of them. They got up to speed just as we came along side them and both groups morphed into one. We went from a small group of 6 to somewhere close to 20 riders. Everyone just started chatting with one another like it was nothing. It's cool the kind of familiarity you have with other riders out on the road. It's one thing I really like about running and cycling. So, anyway, that group split off to go eat breakfast and we continued on our 54 mile journey.
I made a few big efforts during the ride that really taxed my system. It was good though, because I got to see how quickly I can recover these days. The verdict? Not as quickly as the past, but not shabby for the time being. It will improve.
I learned one thing though on this ride and that is, if I want Endomondo and Glympse to track for more than about 2 hours I need to have an external power source plugged into my phone prior to heading out and during the ride. I had the computer on my back tracking time and distance so I was able to edit it accurately on Endo. The only thing I didn't update is the map.
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