Equalizing

Sunday morning PyZahl needed some time to get up, but got his Morning ceremony, a Cappuccino, a just perfect cooked egg -- he likes it best just at the phase transition towards medium -- a big slice of his special home made Sour Dough Rye bread... and (he is not telling what he likes on it now)... finished in optimal timing, loaded the bike into his car, it felt just a very little chilly just at sun rise, so he figured the short shirt will do it today, and headed to Manorville KK, the Early Birds gathering location for the usual ride, a so very traditional ride as he learned a while ago -- the ride seams to originate back into the early 80s.
There, it felt so much more chilly, he was a bit freezing but as he also learned, that's alright for the first 1/2 hour and hoped for the best and sun. Other riders were showing up with long sleeves, one even with long pant, but also some with all short as him -- a well mix.

Just 5' late they rolled off the parking lot -- North. At decent speed, slight little constant and noticeable head wind was blowing, they passed some shivering cold spot, PyZahl like the warm once so much more. That patch of gravel was still there -- reminds him on the D2R2. From there the speed again increased on Sound Ave. No big deal so far, he got a few good and not too long pull in by now. Sudden while going into the wind on Penny Ln the usual sprint at "The Tanks" started out, he made it up the little hill but then lost some power and got dropped, damn -- that't did not happened for a while he thought -- but good he has some excuses: He did a reasonable speedy MTB ride the day before, he missed a decent lunch and dinner on Friday, he was still little shivering -- a cold engine is never good -- and he was looking for a tree, but cant do this now... hoping to catch up at the first reassembly point -- he pushed at constant velocity into the wind, but lost them out of sight. Getting to the point of hope, well, he saw them just departing, too far ahead o-) No rest, proceeding on his own all the long way to the Deli stop in Cutchogue -- into the wind. However, he managed to keep an average of 33km/h until there.

Good to see them all again.
Good to find a tree, finally.
Good to have a hot coffee.
Good to eat a Cliff Bar.
Good to have a little rest for recovery.

And good to start out together for the second half -- only 40km out of 89km. Let's see how that works. It got warmer, he felt much more comfortable now. Less wind. He stayed a bit more in the cozy back and just took a few very short pulls. Pretty good moving. Approaching the incline of 51 the usual game stared as no one want to take a pull before that... But once on the incline speed picked up and power was put into the machines, they started flying along in a fast and rotating double paceline, moving with about 50km/h on left and passing with over 53km/h on right to the front drifting to the left and slowing slightly... just great and fun. Some how PyZahl got back his energy and was back on same level staying in the game and front group until finish :-) Average: 38.0km/h.

The North Route.
The Speed Distribution:

-?- It's all about time -?- it all about distance -?- to get them all -?-