Commute Loop & LVAV Tuesday Night Ride – 2025.03.25

Last ride before Planet Ultra’s Solvang Double Century this weekend. I seriously considered commuting on Thursday; however, winds are forecast to be gusting nearly 40 MPH when I would be riding home and that’s no bueno. I’ll take the opportunity to have an extra rest day to prepare for Saturday.

Along the way to Pedal & Pour in the afternoon I took the opportunity to tack on a few Wandrer miles. Mostly painting a few of the neighborhood streets on either side of Riley. Good enough for another mile or so, but nothing ground breaking. I’m probably going to start adding a few more side streets and mixing up the route to and from work on Tuesdays in order to add on some additional Wandrer miles.

Despite the side quest, I got to Pedal & Pour early enough to pick up my special order of Orange Cranberry Energy Bars. I’d asked Jade to make me another batch for this weekend’s DC. Plan on taking the entire stack with me. I’ve had them before so I’m certainly not violating the “Nothing new on event day” mantra, but I’m interested to see how I do and feel using them. Interestingly, I’m light on my usual GU supplies so I’m committed.

Great evening ride with the fellas, and we even had a couple new faces out tonight. The weather was about as good as you could ask for. Sure we might have liked things to have started a little cooler, but then I’m sure we would have complained it was too cool. Overall, the evening ride went as expected with Dave absolutely crushing it straight out of the gate and keeping it fast the entire time.

‍New bike fund: $92.03 (+$0.52), €1.52 (+€0.00), ₱10.00 (+₱0.00), ֏10.00 (+֏0.00)
1.26 new miles — From Wandrer.earth
421 total shifts, 37 front, 384 rear. 90.5% of the ride in the big ring, 9.5% in the small ring. Most time spent in 52×21, 20.7% — by di2stats.com
327 vehicles @ 6.1 per mile, 1.9 per minute, Speeds: 33.4 mph (avg), 62.0 mph (max) — by MyBikeTraffic.com
Sunny-Mostly clear, 61°F-85°F, Feels like 61°F-85°F, Humidity 28%-10%, Wind SSW 5mph-N 0mph — by Klimat.app
— myWindsock.com Report —
Weather Impact™: -4%
Headwind: 28% @ 0.7 – 6.9 mph
Longest Headwind: 16m 42s
Air Speed: 19.5 mph
Temp: 60.3-86.9 °F
Precip: 0% @ 0 Inch/hr
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