Monday, May 31 – 62 kms in 2:11
Close but no cigar. I was hoping to hit 800 kms for May. I managed to do over 770 kms in the month. Most of it was on road, but I managed to get a few good single-track rides in on Bowen Island and during the Orecrusher up in Squamish.
Today was another day of wacky Vancouver weather. It pissed with rain all morning and I was thinking that a ride this afternoon would be a soggy and miserable affair. After lunch the rain cleared up, the roads dried and I headed out on my commuter bike. This beast, and 1990 fully rigid monster with a rack and fenders, does have the solitary benefit of slick tyres, so the road sections are pretty fast. They barely make up for the fact that it weighs about 10 pounds more than my XC bike. (And it is about twice as much as my carbon fibre road bike.)
For some reason known to no one I thought that I'd have another go at my 10km TT route. Well, I think that slick tyres make more of a difference than bicycle weight. I managed the route in 16:32, almost 2 minutes faster than yesterday on my XC bike.
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