Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac/Great Falls, MD > Dupont Circle
Distance: 37.7 miles (moderately hilly)
Duration: 2:05
Weather: sunny and hot, 90 degrees
Avg HR: 140 (max 168)
Type: aerobic

PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride, Pleasant Hills & Great Falls route. Good turnout today despite the heat, as Nick (the founder of the Tuesday night club rides) was in town to see how the ride has carried on without him. Wolfgang and Darren were there to help push the pace, and there was some good, sporing sparring on the hills. The whole group rode an incredible paceline back to DC along MacArthur Boulevard – one of the best of the year – and I won the town line sprint, edging out Glen at the end. After the ride, six of us enjoyed dinner at Nooshi Noodles, sitting outside and catching up on all sorts of things.

I finished the month of July with 731 miles for the 31-day period – a good haul, likely to be eclipsed in August with all of the various century rides upcoming. This weekend, there’s the Mountain Mama Road Bike Challenge, and subsequent weekends will feature other century rides in the area.

For the year, I’m just shy of 2,500 miles – 5,000 miles should be an attainable goal, for sure.