Had some anxiety dreams, probably because of the ride the previous day. Woke up around 5:40 and did a little route planning before getting ready for the ride. I had everything together, went out in the garage and found my rear tire was flat. Dang it! These tires are easy to remove, so I swapped the tube in 5 minutes and pumped both tires up. That delayed me, so I left home around 7:07. Down by the park and across the pedestrian bridge, then through Kit Carson Park and eventually to Center City Pkwy. Traffic in Escondido wasn't too bad, temperature was really nice, and I had a little bit of a tailwind for this portion of the ride. Through Escondido and up to Deer Springs Rd, still feeling fine. It wasn't as enjoyable on the descent by Lawrence Welk Village, but it was still nice. Made pretty good time to the base of the climb up to the arch bridge. This was a workout, as usual, but I felt okay on the climb, stayed in the saddle for most of it. The descent after was really fun, but temperature was rising. I stayed on the 395 and enjoyed a generally flat section for a while until a 700' gradual climb came along. It was about 3 miles and comprised much of the elevation gain before the drop into Temecula. At some point, the 395 crossed over I-15 and the climb continued on the east side of the freeway it flattened out for a while before a couple of little climbs that set me up for the winding descent. I had passed another ride awhile back, but he caught up with me and rode my wheel for a while. He passed me just past the start of the descent, so I followed his line down, thrilling and a little scary. This dropped us down to Pechanga Pkwy, where I turned left and then left again onto Temecula Pkwy. This got me to Old Town Front St, where I rode into town, stopped to take a picture of the sign, then a little later for a longer stop to eat a granola bar and banana. Was definitely too late in refueling on this ride, and I thought I was doing good with taking in water. Stayed on this road, which turned into Jefferson Ave, until I got to Nutmeg St, where I turned left and rode over to Washington Ave, which turned into Palomar St. Eventually, I veered off to the right onto Mission Trail, which turned into Lakeshore Dr and brought me into Lake Elsinore. It was in this general area that my front tire started going flat. I stopped and changed it pretty quickly, pumping manually and then topping off with CO2. It was hot by this time, I had been sweating for a while, and I got pretty heated up while changing the tire. From there, my pace slowed down noticeably. Followed Lakeshore Dr until it turned into Main St, took me through a quaint little downtown area. To Sumner St, a left and then a right on Spring St, which got me over to Collier Ave, left there. Slowing down more here, I was nearly out of water and it was probably 100 deg out. I was looking for a convenience store and found an AM-PM. Stopped there and bought a large Gatorade. Was a little woozy when I got off the bike, and that's when I knew I wasn't going to make it into Corona. I did feel a little better after rehydrating, turned left onto Nichols Rd shortly after. Rode on that until a right turn onto Lake St. I was hoping that it would be consistently downhill from here, no luck. There were some minor climbs after this turn, and I was really slow up them. I turned onto Temescal Canyon Rd and had some downhill sections, but even here I was doing more slow coasting than fast riding. This was the mode from here until the end of the ride, slow on flats, slower on any climbs, and coasting/recovering on descents. I texted Ann to meet me at the Temescal Canyon Rd exit, my legs were starting to cramp and the bottoms of my feet were hot. Was so glad to come around a corner and see the gas station up ahead, I was at my limit, couldn't have gone further without a significant break and calorie/fluid infusion.
Avg speed =16.3 mph. Total mileage = 67.6 mi
Avg power = 138 W. Weighted avg power = 159 W
Total elevation gain = 3160'
Avg heartrate = 131 bpm (Coospo)
Relative Effort = 139
Training Load = 236
Intensity = 72%
This was the first time in a long time that I had gone this deep, a lot of it I attribute to the high temperature. Ann got to the gas station meeting spot before me, but not too long before. I asked her to buy me a Big Gulp when I took my stuff off and started to recover. We were back on the road soon, drove into downtown Claremont, and had a light lunch at The Peel Claremont, which was unremarkable. Then we got some ice cream to take to the Humes, at Bert & Rocky's, before driving over there. Ann was driving, thank the Lord. We had a nice, wide-ranging discussion in the afternoon, talking about travel, family, politics, and some church (Ann and Susan). I took a short break from the conversation to decompress (had taken a shower right after I got there). Then the four of us drove into downtown Claremont and met the Domonoskes for dinner at Bardot. The restaurant was decent. It was their anniversary, and the Humes had recently celebrated a wedding anniversary as well. Dan was in a curious mood, maybe a little too much to drink. But we heard about Heather (works for the university in SLO) and Colin (is a CFP living down here in the San Diego area). I was pretty tired at the end of this day.
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