Great day, survived the ride. My GPS app crashed again half way through, but at-least this time I completed the first half before it did (see stats below), so total ride was 81km from Penticton to Tinhorn Creek Winery, Oliver, BC.
Although its warm up here, leaving at 6:30am helped as the wind was light and 70% of the road was in shade to Oliver. I am still working on getting consistently above 30km on the road (climbs and all) but at-least with each ride my time is improving.
The second half was completely different and difficult. The wind kicked up around 8:30am and the ride from Oliver back to Ok falls was like riding up hill for 22km straight. It's also slightly more "uphill" going back then coming, which would have been fine if not for the "wind tunnel" I was riding in. 1/3 of the way from OK falls to Penticton there is an approx. 3km uphill grade that took out my legs and the last 13km or so I was riding with "dead weight" in my legs trying to fight the gust of wind coming off Skaha Lake right at me.
Thankfully I am once again standing and walking and my legs are actually not yelling back at me. So all is good. Next major stage is to hit the 100km+ mark soon. Bye the way, the wind cost me 30mins extra coming back so all told I was on the bike for 3.5 hours
Name: Track 009
Date: 2009-08-02 6:36 am
Distance: 44.3 kilometers
Elapsed Time: 1:35:35
Avg Speed: 27.8 km/h
Max Speed: 44.2 km/h
Avg Pace: 02' 09" per km
Min Altitude: 286 m
Max Altitude: 371 m
Start Time: 2009-08-02T13:36:41Z
Start Location:
Latitude: 49.461397º N
Longitude: 119.578854º W
End Time: 2009-08-02T15:12:16Z
End Location:
Latitude: 49.335962º N
Longitude: 119.570234º W