Ride from home, through the neighborhood for a couple of miles until heading over to meet up with Jim and Dave at Jim's house. The first part of this ride I did without my helmet, not realizing that I had forgotten to put it on. We headed over to Escondido, using the freeway route to Centre City Pkwy. On this climbing section, I felt okay but ran out of gas pretty quickly. This turned out to be the story of this ride, just not enough energy throughout the ride to push the pace at any sustained level. It was a combination of not getting enough to eat the previous evening and not having ridden much recently. We turned left on Mission Rd and headed over to Barham Dr, then the normal route by CSUSM and over to Discovery St. Go onto San Marcos Blvd briefly, turning left on Rancho Santa Fe Rd. My legs were pretty shot by this time, so I just kept pedaling. We took this road to San Elijo Rd and up into San Elijo Hills. This latter climb was not as steep as I remembered it. Turned on Elfin Forest Rd and rode through this area, which was quite nice after the recent rains. It looked like the road had been heavily flooded, but we didn't have any problems. Connected into Escondido using Harmony Grove Rd, then over Enterprise to Andreesen and to Auto Park Way. Back to 9th Ave. Around this point in the ride, Dave shared a Power Bar with me because I needed an energy boost. It helped. Home via Centre City Pkwy and normal route. Although the temperature was a little cool at the beginning, the weather was really great for a ride, and it was fun to ride without getting wet and dirty.
Avg. speed = 16.7 mph. Total mileage = 37.8 mi
Average heartrate = ?? bpm
Total elevation gain = 1190'
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