The 30 Km mark

Well managed to get out for another ride today. Thankfully the forcast for thunderstorms held up till later in the afternoon and was able to get a nearly sunny ride in.

I was cruising on my way out and was having such an enjoyable ride. Temperature was perfect, wind was decent, things were going well. I felt like I could have gone on forever but it was my plan to do only around 30km mark since it would only be my second time riding that long to-date.

Well lets just say I'm glad I didn't keep going on forever...in that direction...because I don't know what the radio guy was talking about barely any winds because when I turned around those "barely" winds seemed to be making themselves known. Though my plan was to really just take it easy on this ride so I wasn't overly concerned with my lower speeds on the way back.

I had averaged about 26.6km/hr on the way out and my speed on the way back amazingly only dropped me down to 23.3km/hr which really isn't much different then the averages I've been pulling lately. A sure cry from what I use to pull last year but once again I'm only in the beginning stages of getting back into training.

Even though the ride was great on the whole, unfortunately at km mark 28 my knee started to act up again. I slowed right down but it didn't deter. So once again I jumped off my bike and proceeded to do a number of stretches on the side of the road. It seemed to help but I could still tell I had to take it slow the last bit of the way home. I ended up doing 35 km in total (riding time was 1 hr 28min, actual time out was 1 hr 55 min). The last time I did around this much, it seemed that right around the 30km mark was when my knee starting bugging me that time. Here's praying I can get over this hump.

Well the plan tomorrow is to go riding with Hilena (finally) so hopefully all things go well there. I've missed getting to ride with her.

I took a few shots while biking today. I've noticed some of the lovely pictures others have taken and posted on their blog and thought I'd better get on gear on that as well. Enjoy :)