20-mile ride and spin class

Today my goal was to do the 8:30 spin class and follow it up with a 20 mile bike ride. Stacy's class was extra hard. We did endurance drills at a quick pace adding some small resistance for the first half of class. Then for the first 15 minutes of the second half of class we did a huge hill followed by two songs of sprints. After that I wasn't sure how well I would do on my 20 mile bike ride. The ride I picked doesn't have many large hills though it does have some pretty short ones. I finished in 1 hour 35 minutes which includes all of the stop lights and the 5 minute break I took at the car to refill my camel pack. All in all I think I rode about 15 mph. I figure I can probably average about 14 mph riding with 5 minute breaks each hour which would put me at about 13 mph recorded time. This means my goal should be ~3:15.

The elevation map posted on the LiveStrong sight shows some pretty massive hills so some point soon I'm going to have to find a training group to get on some roads with better hills. I was pretty happy with my ability to tackle the hills I did. I know I could do much better if I had the clip in peddles so I could use my whole leg.