30 October 2007

Weekday morning UCSC loop

It was overcast and foggy and chilly in the morning again. It had rained yesterday afternoon, but the roads were mostly dry. There were buses each time up, as well as the van towing racks of bikes on two of the climbs. On the third descent, being a bit more winded, I took it easier pedaling, and concentrated more on aerodynamic form. On the fourth and last descent, I pedaled harder. It turned out that the third descent was about 10 seconds faster than the first two, and the fourth descent was only 3 seconds faster than the 3rd. On the climb, though, I was slower on each subsequent loop.

It looks like I was slightly faster than a week earlier, but slower than I was on the Sunday afternoons.