February Road Riding in Ohio

Today's road ride. Weather looked iffy, but we managed to make it back to the car just as sprinkling began. A great ride. My fitness is coming along, just not quite where I wished it had been. I kept thinking, wow I turn a year older and all of a sudden I feel like crap on some roads I have ridden before. I felt good for 20min, not great for 5 min, on and on. I guess a pretty hard long ride and the first one in a few weeks.  We did 1818 Feet of climbing in just over 3 hours. Not bad for a February ride.

Here's the elevation graph.
I am not sure which way this route would be more 'fun' the way we rode, or backwards? Still a good route with some decent power numbers.

Close to 30 days out from 5 day camp in Asheville, NC.

It Doesn't get Much Better than This

Riding with friends can't be beat. Riding with good friends is even better. Riding in south east Ohio is of the BEST around. My bro-in law Tim picked out and handled the map duties for the day and we had an epic ride for about 3.5 hours. I think it was right around 50 miles or so, with about 3500 feet or so of climbing. Tim, Joel, Layne, John and I all met up in downtown Canal Winchester to put a few hours of climbing in our legs before Asheville and before our road season starts.
I got the white hoods installed and my white Ritchey stem which is light, stiff and white. Very nice. I have since flipped it flat since this pic and will be removing the red bar tape and replacing it with black. The red is just a little too pinkish and not dark red enough for my taste.
I felt pretty great all day, we all worked equally and threw down pretty hard outside of Lithopolis and into downtown Canal. Spring has sprung - fitness and endurance is growing as well. The watts are up. good stuff.