Residual Mucus

The more appropriate title for this ride would be Ride to Remember, but I couldn’t resist this gem of a ride title brought to you by Boots herself.

A solid day’s worth of riding. The winds were kinda tough coming out of the north for most of the day, but they were great on the return! After the festivities at Subaru I took everyone on an excursion north instead of riding along the trail.

After a Pedal & Pour stop, Boots and I decided to roll with Caleb north to Russell and continue east to Jones. I wanted to ride the recently opened bridge on Jones which would allow us to ride all the way into Southern Highlands. As we made the right onto Jones we were surprised with gnarly “gatorback” asphalt and road construction. Thankfully traffic was understanding and we made it through without issue.

The road surface improved greatly around Sunset and stayed nice the remainder of the stretch. As we approached the newly completed bridge and Blue Diamond intersection the asphalt was pristine and we had a nice bike lane to boot. Hitting the light green and a tailwind powering us we started humming towards Cactus. This stretch has no stops or lights so it made for a great power stretch. We would eventually get Boots the QOM on a segment along that stretch.

We were a little short on miles so I decided to route us over to Seven Hills to make our way into Anthem from the north. In the end it worked out well as we arrived into Starbucks with our centuries in hand.

New bike fund: $93.23 (+$0.25), €1.52 (+€0.00), ₱10.00 (+₱0.00), ֏10.00 (+֏0.00)
‍5.99 new miles — From Wandrer.earth
717 total shifts, 76 front, 641 rear. 72.5% of the ride in the big ring, 27.5% in the small ring. Most time spent in 52×17, 14.3% — by di2stats.com
530 vehicles @ 6.3 per mile, 1.8 per minute, Speeds: 35.8 mph (avg), 59.6 mph (max) — by MyBikeTraffic.com
Clear-Sunny, 51°F-75°F, Feels like 49°F-75°F, Humidity 23%-5%, Wind NW 6mph-NNE 11mph — by Klimat.app
— myWindsock.com Report —
Weather Impact™: 5.8%
Headwind: 38% @ 5.9 – 21.5 mph
Longest Headwind: 01h 18m 32s
Air Speed: 11.8 mph
Temp: 51.0-71.7 °F
Precip: 0% @ 0 Inch/hr
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