Spring has finally arrived and today was spectaculor weather. Time to ride Vashon Island and get a 60 miler in with plenty of hills. Delayed the start to let the temp rise. Lunch at bakery on Vashon and then headed for ferry on south end of the island. Mt. Rainer was out and beautiful.
Interesting that the first 29 miles from home to the south end of Vashon took 2 hrs 19 minutes and the last 29+ mile took 2 hrs 41 minutes even though both have about the same elevation. Getting tired??
Will need to be doing these 60+mile rides along with 5,000' elevation back to back in order to stay with the group this summer on the Montana and Colorado rides.
Data: Decided to see what the battery will do by running the full 60 miles on level 1 with a few excursions to level 2 and 3. At level 3, used 9% on big hill on north end of the island and 11% on big hill north of Gig Harbor. Ended the day with 17% left. Easily could have done some of the flater sections with no assist.