Bike Camp Day Three

I'm all fired up about what is to go on today; the 60 mile hill ride in San Antonio, FL. Hill ride in FL, right....well it was 1440' in 38 miles, so while it's no Alpe d'Huez :), it does get you out of the saddle once in awhile. So, wait a minute you're thinking; you're going on a 60 mile ride and you just talk about the climbing for 38, what gives? Well, traffic for starters. The ride is only 18 miles away from the house I'm staying at, but I75 decides that it will take 1.5 hours to go that distance. Talk about wanting to go postal. So the start time for the ride moved from 8:30AM to 10:30AM. Not good; we keep seeing people that are ending their ride as we are going out. So around 30 miles into the ride Gary has a flat and learns that the tire is a wire bead and has fun playing with that for the next 30 minutes. Pat is cramping, didn't bring enough food and I'm realizing that my wonderful long ride made have to be shortened. DAMN.
Anyway; 38.3 miles, 2:59:32.1, avg heart rate 119, max 160, speed 12.8 (OMG that's slow) & max 36 mph. Temperature went from 84 to 89'F. CAD avg was 90 & max was 118.

Thanks for reading,
Rick