I'm not sure if my wheels spent more time swimming or rolling! Standing water everywhere for pretty much the whole ride. The only problem ended up being one particular puddle that was much deeper than expected, luckily at the top of a small climb so I wasn't going to fast. And I guess the standing water on my glasses would be an issue too, if you're one of those people who likes to see where you're going.
Snow/slush/rain... about 2 degrees out. Not really what I expected on an April afternoon, even after reading a weather report that said all that plus thunder and lightning. So I got a little hypothermic when I slowed the pace after one hour of pushing.
I've been home for about 40min and my toes are still numb. I can feel my heels now, but they tingle. My neoprene shoe covers seem to wrap my shoes in such a way as to make them into little pails of water. It felt like I had weights hanging off my pedals. This could be from the weight of the water soaked into the neoprene and sitting in my shoes, or maybe just from the cold, sore muscles trying to turn them.
In any case, my goal was to see where I stood for a max 60min effort. I don't think the conditions really permitted an accurate test, but I was able to get some idea. I tried to keep the power above 220W, which was sort of difficult on the varying terrain. I think I need to retry this on a long climb, maybe up Seymour. In the end my 60min push was at an avg of 212W, but it was really all over the place, between about 190 and 260 most of the time. It'll do as a starting point though.
As for the overall ride, I had a 10min warmup and a 15min "cooldown!" Basically I tried to ignore how cold I was for those last 15min. 40.82km in 1:25:50, for an avg speed of 28.6km/h and avg power of 193W (203W normalized).
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