Saturday was the first 'official' training ride for me of the season. Ben had rocked a 30 mile ride last weekend, so I guess I was behind a week in 'Operation Get Ass In Gear'. Ben and I are joined this year by Erin, who was somehow able to keep up with our blazing speed and overall near-perfect ability on a bicycle (sarcasm). Ben, Erin, & I met up around 8:45 somewhat down Beach Drive (a sort of centralized location), and set out on what was intended to be a very casual 35 mile ride.
You may think that the ending of that first paragraph was an ominous cliffhanger. It was not, and this actually was totally a casual and enjoyable ride. We headed north on Beach Drive, and basically took my route to work plus another 6 or so miles (Thanks to Ben for mapping this out), jumping from the Rock Creek Trail onto the Matthew Henson Trail. I gotta hand it to that 'African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary on various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition during which he may have been the first person to reach the Geographic North Pole', he made a hell of a trail (totally did not make that trail, BTW). It's been probably about a year now since I biked that particular trail, and every time I do I enjoy it more and more. It's smooth, less populated than the Rock Creek Trail, and generally just a lot of fun to ride on.
We made pretty awesome time, considering that we were on bike paths (curvaceous, and thus much slower-going), and made close to the entire 36-mile round trip in somewhere between 2 hours and 2 hours and 15 minutes. This is the pace that we certainly would like to keep up for the century ride in order to reach our target time of under 7.5 hours.
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