Road Ride 21 Feb 2009

21 Feb 2009 - Eugene Got a nice road ride in today. First one in the two hour range I've actually done in a while. While that's really not long at all, I just haven't had time to get in rides over about 20 miles for the last few weeks. Yesterday was great, but the last 30 mins I kinda just ran out of steam. Not a real bonk, just no punch, no power. I have been quite low on sleep (staying up until 3am doesn't help things), and had a minor cold, so I'll just blame it on that :) Aside from that, nearly perfect weather - started at about 55 degrees, was 51 by the time I got home. Was able to just wear knee warmers, Icebreaker GT 220 base and a fairly thin Pearli long sleeve jersey, Castelli gloves. Perfect. The weather was threatening rain later on, so conditions were questionable, but again, all worked out great. I wound up going out Lorane, to Territorial, back up over Briggs Hill, Spencer Creek, Lorane, and back home. I think about 28 miles. My computer has been acting up, and I think I've finally determined that the cordless wheel sensor/receiver has a low battery. I stopped on a descent, as once I hit speeds over about 25, it just stopped detecting anything. I stopped, pushed the sensor that much closer to the wheel magnet and then it worked again, but it's uber-close, no room for flex. I used RunKeeper on my iPhone as well, but the GPS on that has been pretty spotty. Looking at the results, you see good accuracy for about half the ride, then just a bunch of straight lines where there are clearly no roads, etc. So, I figure it missed at least 2 miles, if not more (based on average speed of 15+, and a 2 hour time, I'd suspect maybe even the ride was 30 miles.) I'm a bit bummed that the iPhone/RunKeeper isn't working better. I really dig RunKeeper, but the GPS of the phone or something, is just not very good in my experience so far.