Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Avenel, MD > Dupont Circle
Distance: 27.2 miles (moderately hilly)
Duration: 1:31
Weather: foggy and misty, with some drizzle, 65 degrees
Avg HR: 135 (max 168)
Type: aerobic

PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride, Mountain Gate route. The weather was quite gloomy for this one: mist and fog, fairly cool. I’d work arm and leg warmers, though the former were ditched about 15 minutes into the ride. Only four riders showed up, and Jonathan and I were the only A-class riders there, so the two of us embarked on the ride, thinking that we may need to cut even the shorter Mountain Gate route down a bit due to darkness.

Fortunately, the light situation didn’t get any worse, though my glasses got foggy if we had to stop. We ended up doing the full, 27-mile route and had a blast, making good time the whole way. It did rain on us briefly, immediately after the Mountain Gate Road climb, but that was the extent of it. Once again, I was über strong on the hills, and dropped Jonathan on every incline of distance.