Ride with John, starting from home and heading over the freeway and up BVP. On the majority of this ride, I kept my cadence down to ride close with him, creating separation mainly on the climbing sections as well as a couple of places on the flats where I pushed the pace pretty hard. The weather cooperated pretty well, not getting too hot. We headed up BVP then jogged over to Citrus Ave and took it back to BVP. Then we headed out toward Lake Wohlford Rd, taking it up the grade. I did pretty well in the first mile but didn't speed up much after the grade lessened. Still working on building back my cardio fitness. We headed out by the lake, then came back by the casino to Valley Center Rd. This stretch of road back has a nice slight downhill grade, but the bike lane is in terrible shape, very bumpy and jarring. Once you get a little closer to Valley Center, the road smoothes out and is a nice ride. We rode together for most of this section, with a little separation on the little climb up to the downhill grade into Valley Center. I was pretty aware of my speed on this downhill, which is long but fairly straight. The ride back through Escondido on BVP was also fairly fast, since it's a net downhill with very little uphill to speak of. John was keeping up a good pace here, and we were trading leads. I had a pretty fast ride across the I-15 bridge, able to keep a pace >30 mph. Then it was a cooldown effort back home, where we celebrated the ride with smoothies.
Avg speed = 17.5 mph. Total mileage = 37.1 mi
Avg heartrate = 146 bpm
Total elevation gain = 1670'
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