Sunset On This Evening's Ride
06 June 2015 • by bob • Bicycling, Arizona
Sunset during this evening's 52-mile bicycle ride...
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| Sunset Over the Desert |
Which reminds me, I should point out that there are both good and bad things about heading out for a long ride in the evening; one of the good things is getting to see sunsets like this. However, one of the bad things is when you realize that you're seeing a sunset like this while you're still 15 miles away from your house, which means that in a few minutes you will be plunged into a darkness that will surround you like an encroaching evil, where you are never more than one menacing pothole away from certain death.
Did I mention that the light on my bicycle failed five minutes after I turned it on? It's a good thing that I was once a Boy Scout and I had a backup light; it was better than nothing, but it barely offered enough light to see the road.
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| Just Before Darkness Fell, (And I still needed to ride half-way to the far horizon) |
That being said, I can see that I have digressed from my original thought... it really was a nice sunset.
Ride Stats:
- Primary Statistics:
- Start Time: 5:14pm
- Distance: 52.5 miles
- Duration: 3:29:01
- Calories Burned: 1656 kcal
- Altitude Gain: 2181 feet
- Speed:
- Average Speed: 14.8 mph
- Peak Speed: 30.8 mph
- Average Cadence: 76.0 rpm
- Temperature:
- Average: 83.7 F
- Minimum: 78.8 F
- Maximum: 89.6 F
- Heart Rate:
- Average: 144 bpm
- Maximum: 175 bpm