Tumtum Ride

QUICK STATS	This Ride	2010 Cumulative
Distance	62.32 miles	321 miles
Elevation Gain	4,061 feet	3.40 miles
Average Moving Speed	14.5 mph	14.4 mph

You can see there were two nice hills on this ride. Both significantly longer than we have around our house. There was supposed to be another big hill...

We had originally planned to do an 84-mile version of this ride which included a nasty climb called Dobler Hill and a return by way of Ridgefield. After we completed 40 miles and at the top of the second major climb (Grantham Road), with Dobler Hill yet to come, we decided to bail out on Dobler. Upping our ride distance from 52 miles last week to 84 miles this week was probably a stretch as it was, but then also adding one of the county's "worst" climbs was probably too much to bite off. Thankfully it was easy to bail. We simply turned the opposite way after the Grantham Road climb and cut off the Dobler Hill portion. In fact, we were so wiped out that we decided to skip Ridgefield and basically went back the way we came, which was both very direct, and relatively flat. Upon reaching our house it was obvious we made the right decision, as we were both exhausted.

In the end, I think I pushed it too hard. My heart rate was an average of 141.8 bpm, or 90% of my lactate threshold. My heart rate spent 30% of the time in zone 4 (Threshold) and 48% of the time in zone 3 (Tempo). It was basically a Tempo ride but I'm not really ready for one of those yet! Oh well, what's done is done. At least we bailed instead of making it completely nutty.