Quite a bit cooler today compared to yesterday w/ more headwind action and thus the slower avg spd (also had to add winter fleece outer layers, top and bottom). Avg spd 15.4 mph at 10 mile marker (Howe Park - at waterfall (sqeezed an extra tenth of a mph onto the avg spd by continuing straight for a little more downhill instead of turning left onto Lyford St.) ). ( Avg H/R ? bpm (have added "replace the chest sensor battery" to my "To do" list)- got 2 and a half years service out of the original button battery ).
Avg speed build-up as ride progressed: Knox Trail Jr High entrance road (1/4 mile into the route) 17 mph ; top of first big Ash St hill (at 2 wx vanes) 8.6 mph (last time it was 8.5 mph); at end of Ash St 11 mph (last time 11.0 mph); corner of E Charlton & Bacon Hill Rd 13 mph (last time 13 mph); E Charlton & Old Spencer Rd (town line) 13.6 mph; end of Old Spencer Rd (at Rt 31) 14.1 mph, green light today once again, ( last time 15.0 mph ) ; bottom of downhill trough on N Sturbridge Rd (just before Osgood Rd) 14.9 mph (last time 15.9 mph); corner of Briarcliff Ln & Bacon Hill Rd near railroad underpass 15.1 mph (last time 16.1 mph); end of Cranberry Meadow Rd at railroad overpass ? mph; Howe Park (at turn onto Lyford Rd uphill just before railroad overpass- actually this time continued straight to waterfall to get a little more downhill and an extra tenth on avg spd reading) 15.4 mph (last time 16.6 mph- so today's cooler and denser air mass, plus the headwinds for most of the route, took their toll in reducing the avg spd for ride) (end of 10.4 mile (today) training route #1). Wx conditions: Overcast (w/ a headwind seemingly no matter what direction I was riding) air temp 44 F , dew pt 30 F, winds N and NW 10 mph and swirlly .