Two Rides

May 11: 1803.0; 48.1
May 13: 1826.8; 23.8

Neglected to blog the 48-mile ride, longest to date on this bike (longest ride ever: 65 miles, but that was not intentional!). It was good.The 22 miles from here to Healdsburg must be one of the nicest rides in the county, at least on a weekday. On the bike path from Sebastopol to Forestville, then down the hill to the river and Westside Road following the river. Rode back on Old Redwood Highway, which isn't the nicest route but probably is the flattest. I thought it might be shorter than the Eastside Road route from last time--not so. Though I had a long "lunch" stop in Healdsburg, I was still beat by the time I got home, and really struggled to keep up any speed the last few miles, and my hands were numbing out from riding so long--it seemed to take so much more energy to ride hands-free (and upright) I couldn't do it for very long periods towards the end. But still, a milestone and something to build on.

So today, I was okay with just a short ride--but not TOO short. Thus I went up High School Road from Sebastopol to Occidental, across the Laguna, left on Sandford, right on Hall, left on Willowside, and onto the bike path. I could've taken that straight home for 18 miles, but felt I should do 20+ to keep up my pace, so turned left on Llano, right on Todd to the south end of Sebastopol, and into and through town and home on 116. Kept up a pretty good pace throughout--didn't time it, but suspect I did better than my usual average of 12-13mph. Felt good.