Not quite "personal worst"
May. 4th, 2017 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujI got to bicycle home again. I took the "old route", which was almost exactly the same distance as the "new route", 25.70 miles, but my performance totally stank. 2:42 for an average of 9.5. (Actual personal worst was 9.2, it turns out.)
There was a bit of a headwind at the end, but the wind had shifted and it had been a bit of a tailwind at the beginning. There was a lot of traffic so there were some slow bits creeping past stopped cars. Maybe they added up. But I also got tired early. When I got to the antepenultimate hill, I needed a much lower gear than usual and wondered how in heck I was going to get up the penultimate hill. Barely, is the answer, and then on the final hill it again was in the lowest gear, which I never need there.
There was a bit of a headwind at the end, but the wind had shifted and it had been a bit of a tailwind at the beginning. There was a lot of traffic so there were some slow bits creeping past stopped cars. Maybe they added up. But I also got tired early. When I got to the antepenultimate hill, I needed a much lower gear than usual and wondered how in heck I was going to get up the penultimate hill. Barely, is the answer, and then on the final hill it again was in the lowest gear, which I never need there.
