October 17: Delta to Nephi, Utah
Today’s route was the reverse of the route I took back on March 20, the third day of The Dream Tour. That was two hundred and fifteen days ago. On that day, I rode from Nephi to Delta, Utah. My entry for that day started like this:
Here’s the profile of today’s ride: wind and sun, wind and rain, snow, then snow and howling wind. Rinse and repeat three times.
I recall it was a pretty miserable day, weatherwise. Well, today was pretty miserable too. Except today the sun never made an appearance from behind the clouds and the rain never turned to snow. It was close to being snow, I think, but it was rain the whole day. I did, however, see chunks of snow fall off of a couple trucks that went by early in the day.
The first 15 miles or so of today’s ride were dry. It had rained all night, but it stopped by about 9 AM and we took that as a sign that we should get going. When we took a turn to the east to head through a mountain range to Nephi, the rain and wind started. The wind was a cross-wind most of the time, so it wasn’t much of a problem. The rain was nothing more than a sprinkle most of the time, but there was a 5 or 6 mile stretch where the rain was coming down pretty hard. I managed to stay warm for the rest of the ride only by not stopping any more than necessary. As a result, I don’t have any photos from the ride today. I think that’s a Dream Tour first.
| Total distance: | 50.43 miles |
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| Time: | 3:41:32 |
| Average speed: | 13.7 mph |
| Maximum speed: | 35.9 mph |
| Total calories: | 3224 |
| Average heart rate: | 123 bpm |
| Maximum heart rate: | 149 bpm |
| Total ascent: | 1867 feet |
| Total descent: | 1368 feet |
| Ride profile: |  (click on image to view a larger version) |
| Ride comments: We got a later start today because we’re now in the Mountain timezone and also because it was raining pretty hard early this morning. By about 9 AM, it looked much drier so we got started. It stayed dry until we headed east to cross a range of mountains on Highway 6. It rained pretty hard for a while and then it got cold and windy. I stayed warm though by not stopping any more than absolutely necessary. |
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October 17th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Have a nice cup of sugar-free cocoa on me. I hope the next two days have much better weather!
October 18th, 2006 at 4:33 am
It looks like you picked up your average speed. I guess you were trying to stay warm or it could be the draw of being close to the “barn”
Go Peter - in the venacular of the movie “The Waterboy” - “You can do it!”