Had a good night's sleep after a pretty busy and active day, even with the Dr Pepper at lunch (<>). I ate some cereal and a banana for breakfast and helped clear the stuff off the carpets that were to be cleaned. Pat showed up around 9:20 for a bike ride, just after the carpet cleaner guy started his work. He got ready, I was already ready to go. Ann came out to say hi to him, and then we headed out. Down by the park and up Pomerado Rd to RB Rd, turning left there. On Pomerado Rd, I got out in front of him a time or two, not so far. We rode together up Espola Rd, but I got out in front again as we rode up to the high school. He caught up without me stopping to wait, and we rode down the hill and then up to Poway Rd. A slightly larger gap formed here, so I waited at the turn onto Poway Rd, and we rode down together to Garden Rd. turning left there. Over to Sycamore Canyon Rd, taking it up to the Scripps-Poway Pkwy underpass. I started this little climb with a fairly hard push that caused me to run out of gas early, so I felt like I was slower on the last steep pitch near the end. Even still, surprisingly, I set a PR (3:26, 277 W) that was also a top-10 finish for my age group on Strava. No heartrate data for this ride because I forgot to attach my sensor to the elastic band. We rode over to Danielson St and used it to get to Kirkham Way, taking this less traveled road back to Scripps-Poway Pkwy. We turned left and rode down the hill before climbing back up to the turn onto Angelique St. I gapped Pat just a little bit on this climb, and a little more on the climb up to Cypress Canyon Park Dr. We took this back over to Pomerado Rd, turning left and riding down to Stonebridge Pkwy, where we turned right and took it all the way to the top. I didn't push the pace for the most part, although I put in a bigger effort in the last mile or so. Elapsed time from Pomerado to the end was just outside the top 10 for my Strava age group. He and I stayed together until the last climbing section, where I created another gap, waiting for a couple of minutes until he showed up. He stopped there for a biobreak, then we continued down Via Santa Pradera to Beeler Canyon Rd, taking this fire road down into the canyon and riding at steady pace over to Creek Rd and then back to Pomerado Rd. We turned right and took it to Oak Knoll Rd, turning left to get back over to Poway Rd. From this point, we stayed on the time trial route for a while. A couple of times, I got out ahead of Pat but not too far ahead. All the way to Camino del Norte, which we stayed on until it turned into Camino del Sur, taking a right on Four Gee Rd. Rode the reverse of the extended route through 4S Ranch to get back to RB Rd. From there, it was the standard way home through the neighborhood. Pat was slowing down near the end of the ride, a good indicator that I had picked the route and effort level just about right. Felt pretty good about my output level on this ride, given a harder ride the previous day.
Avg speed = 16.0 mph. Total mileage = 44.1 mi
Avg power = 147 W. Weighted avg power = 184 W
Total elevation gain = 3390'
Training Load = 214
Intensity = 84%
Had a shower when I got home, then the three of us went to have lunch at Sab-E-Lee. I had a spice level 4 dish, and the heat was just right, as was the flavor. Drove home after that, and Pat left to battle the traffic back to Irvine. I had some time in the afternoon to start putting stuff back after the carpet cleaning. Ate some food before we drove to Encinitas to this tiny venue off Quail Gardens Rd for an unplugged acoustic concert with The Lonesome Roses and Sean Watkins. Weather was wet on the way down, I didn't enjoy the drive. We got there just as they opened the doors, so we had time to pick seats and then get something to drink and a snack at this strange little store/coffee shop/bar nearby. The concert was pretty great in an intimate setting. Sean performed with his wife Dominique, a couple of new songs and a couple of his Nickel Creek songs. Rhianna and Molly were excellent, great vocalists and harmonizers, pretty good songwriters as well. Ann talked to a couple of ladies who are into local music, particularly Switchfoot. I chatted wit a couple of ladies, one of whom went to Coachella to see Nickel Creek and skipped out on the headliner acts Rage, Amy Winehouse, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Very enjoyable all around. Drive home was a little less rainy and more well lit.
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