13th ride of 2020 - Wednesday, 3/25/2020
2020 mileage: 1157.4
Today I was happy to ride a round trip to Baker Rd. for the second consecutive day. It was, however, one of my slower rides -- but in addition to my own sloth, I attribute much of the blame for this to the fact that the MapMyRide app was acting up. It tracked my ride OK, but the vocal feedback was not functioning -- and that serves as a strong incentive and prod to me, calling out my speed and distance every tenth of a mile.
In a real head-scratcher, though, it called out the information as the first .1 mile, as I was leaving our complex, so I figured everything was good. Not long after, though, I discovered it was not working, so I stopped and tried every adjustment I could think of, but nothing worked.
However, this failure was partly balanced by the fact that both yesterday and today, my battery pack has been almost trouble free. Yesterday it was perfect -- when I got to my turnaround point halfway through the ride, and checked it, it was plugged in as it should be and the phone was fully charged. That remained the case when I got home. Today, it did come unplugged once during the first half of my ride, but I was able to get it plugged back in and restarted (though this was challenging to see the indicator lights in the bright sunshine), and it was fully charged both when I turned around and when I got home.
On the way home, I took a very slight shortcut, coming down Maple Rd. and in past the library rather than going by the Big House as I did on the way out, but I still ended with 19 miles in 2:34. As I say, the sunshine was bright, and when I began just past 11:00 a.m. it was 41°; that rose to a toasty 51° during my ride. I had taken gloves with me "just in case," but never needed to put them on.
Today I was happy to ride a round trip to Baker Rd. for the second consecutive day. It was, however, one of my slower rides -- but in addition to my own sloth, I attribute much of the blame for this to the fact that the MapMyRide app was acting up. It tracked my ride OK, but the vocal feedback was not functioning -- and that serves as a strong incentive and prod to me, calling out my speed and distance every tenth of a mile.
In a real head-scratcher, though, it called out the information as the first .1 mile, as I was leaving our complex, so I figured everything was good. Not long after, though, I discovered it was not working, so I stopped and tried every adjustment I could think of, but nothing worked.
However, this failure was partly balanced by the fact that both yesterday and today, my battery pack has been almost trouble free. Yesterday it was perfect -- when I got to my turnaround point halfway through the ride, and checked it, it was plugged in as it should be and the phone was fully charged. That remained the case when I got home. Today, it did come unplugged once during the first half of my ride, but I was able to get it plugged back in and restarted (though this was challenging to see the indicator lights in the bright sunshine), and it was fully charged both when I turned around and when I got home.
On the way home, I took a very slight shortcut, coming down Maple Rd. and in past the library rather than going by the Big House as I did on the way out, but I still ended with 19 miles in 2:34. As I say, the sunshine was bright, and when I began just past 11:00 a.m. it was 41°; that rose to a toasty 51° during my ride. I had taken gloves with me "just in case," but never needed to put them on.
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