Avg speed = 17.1 mph. Total mileage = 48.0 mi
Avg heartrate = 121 bpm
Total elevation gain = 1260'
Saturday, November 27, 2021
11-27-2021 Ride
Drove down to the Park N Ride off Carmel Valley Rd by I-5 near the coast to meet up with the others: Zac, Andy, James, and Arnold. Small group on this day. We headed up Carmel Valley Rd to the coast, taking it fairly easy on this first little climb and once we got onto PCH, for a while. There were a couple of times that Arnold took off to chase after a faster rider, and I tried to keep up with him on this jaunts. We stayed on this road all the way into Carlsbad, where I had jumped out to hang onto the wheel of another rider and made decent time. Stopped for a break in Carlsbad at the Starbucks and decided to ride into Oceanside. We turned off the highway on Easton St to get to Broadway St, then another left on Cassidy St to get to Pacific St, which we took past the pier, eventually turning right onto Harbor Dr and taking it until a cul-de-sac near its end by the marina, where we reversed course and started heading back. I was pushing the pace much more on the outbound route than on the route after we turned around. We retraced our route and headed back, mostly me, Zac, and Arnold getting ahead of the other two. When we got into Encinitas, we turned on D St and took the next left to ride parallel until we got to the street by the Self Realization Fellowship, where we found out that James had gotten separated from us. I went back the way we had come to try and find him but didn't see him, turning right on E St intead of D St, and probably missing him for that reason, I later found out. I headed back on PCH to where I had left the others but didn't see them, so I assumed that they had found James and continued on. That's what I did too. Turns out that they had also gone back and found him waiting at the D St turn before they continued on. By the time I found this out, I was committed to returning, and I didn't know if they were in front of me or behind. So I pushed ahead, retracing the route back to the starting location. I got back about 10 minutes before they did, so I waited until they showed up and then left not so long after. Legs felt good on this ride that didn't have any substantial climbing, just several extended periods of riding in flats or near flats at fairly high pace.
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