Avoid the Wind Ride

One of the famous Texas cold fronts arrived in Austin for when we were planning to ride. So, we mapped out our ride to avoid the wind as much as possible, this meant to stay in neighborhoods (houses & trees make great wind blocks) then ride on Spicewood Springs road to get further up north. Most of our route went northwest and the wind was coming out of the north. Spicewood Springs road isn't in a neighborhood, it's one of the old country roads that follows Bull Creek (it crosses the creek 7 times) there are small waterfalls, a few farms, a church and a cemetary. It really is a cool country oasis in the middle of the city, too bad more homes are being built out there.

The tree's leaves looked so cool with the wind blowing.

 

After Spicewood, we had to go up a pretty steep & long hill, it actually shows as a catagory 5 on MMR. Made it up it without stopping this time, both Kellie & I had to get off the bikes last time for a little hike w/ the bike.

Then through some more neighborhoods, addes a 2 mile circle with a few hills just for grins. Finally made it to 620 & we decided to continue on El Salido to go 3 more miles out so we would at least hit 40 for the day. Ended up in some subdivision in Cedar Park, once we turned around, we got lost! We were cracking up as we rolled through the streets. Eventually we did work our way back to the main road, but it wasn't the way we came in!

Time for a break! This guy's horn would not stop beeping!

The ride back into town was awesome! Took roads that were exposed to the wind so the wind would help us & boy did it, some points we were cruising at 24 mph with barely any effort!

Back in town, it took us a bit over 3 hours to go the 44 miles, last time we did the ride, it took us 2 hours 40 mins to go 10 miles less! Training is helping (as well as the wind!)


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Total miles for this ride: 43.77
Total miles for the month of September: 134.00
Total miles for 2012: 1913.34
Miles to go:  98.66  miles til 2012!!
One way commutes in September so far: 0
Total one way commutes: 58 (I've reached my goal)
Odometer
Road: 12991
Cross: 741