Wow, okay progress.
I went for a solo ride today, at the royal hunting ground. first in a long while where I can set my pace and distance.
First of all, the mud and leaves and slush were ridiculous on the fire roads. I was going down some hills, the kind of hill where you would normally ride your brakes, but instead my bike slows to a halt while pointed down this hill. I wasn't leaving big tracks in the ground, it was mostly micro gravel surfaces where this would happen. It was a total energy stealing whore! I stopped twice to make sure my brakes weren't jammed or something.
Even with that, I hammered away for a solid 4 hours. Garmin says 3 but that's with the autopause thingy that seems to go on and off at random.
Distance: 18.85 mi
Elevation Gain: 2,154 ft
Interesting notes on today's ride.
With an hour left my light flashed a strobe at me, giving me a god damn heart attack. I think it's a warning on the battery life.
As I'm leaving the trail I came out right in front of a County Cop. I had my ipod on and didn't stop and rode RIGHT past him, the K-9 in the car was barking like crazy. He didn't follow me, I was getting out of the trail and headed down a road. Guess he didn't care, I don't know if he asked me to stop or not though
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About 5 minutes later my bluetooth headphones died, first time I killed those on a single ride.
About 1/8th mile from my house my light went into limp mode, down to a very dim level. First time I ever killed my light battery on a single ride.
I expored a LOT of area I hadn't bothered to check out before. No great finds though.