Went out for a nice group ride this morning. The weather cooperated and I think I only got about 2 drops of rain on my face. The ride was a little sketchy at times... not everyone is all that familiar with each other and there were a few near crashes. Went out around UBC to Iona, then out to Steveston, across Richmond and back around UBC. The group ride was about 3 hours, then I put in another 40min solo after to see what I had left in the tank. I did an avg of about 200W and 31km/h for the 40min and didn't feel too bad after. I'm pretty happy with this, since I ran out of water at around the 3 hour mark, and only brought enough calories for a 2 hour ride. I'll be suffering the effects of that calorie deficit later, but for now I'm pretty happy with the way my training is coming along.
For the entire ride, we ended up 97.39km in 3:37:13, for an avg speed of 29.71km/h and avg power of 152W (188W normalized). In general the group portion felt pretty mellow, and the graph shows how much energy I was saving in the slipstream. The purple line showing the wattage shows that even when I was pedaling, it wasn't very hard. Still, I find the cadence to be even more telling, especially when the yellow line hits the deck so often during a ride. This is especially clear when you compare to my other rides (pretty much all solo). Normally that yellow line hovers somewhere around the 90-100rpms, hitting zero at traffic lights only. Today it must have spent about 20% of the group ride on the bottom. On top of this, the yellow line shows 5 breaks, ranging from about a minute to 5 minutes. When you factor out these stops, the avg speed for the whole ride increases about 3km/h, which I must say is pretty significant over nearly 4 hours.
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