Exhausting ride

I started out for my daily ride with a smile on my face, and returned out of breath and my face beet red. The headwinds were 21-25 mph on all the climbs. The 743' elevation gain fighting the wind made this ride really a challenge. I rode 16.23 miles in 1 hr 14 min at an average speed of 13.1 mph and a max speed on the flats of 27.2 mph. I burnt 757 calories and I truly worked at it. The weather was a humid 92 degrees and it sure felt like it.

After I returned from my ride I changed the seat pad back to the open cell foam pad as my boney rear was killing me. The Ventist pad might be a drop cooler, but the pain I couldn't tolerate.