32.7

My average speed today. On its own, not that impressive but considering that the wind speed today was about 25 km/hr I was very happy with that. I'd done a ride earlier in the year where I'd averaged 32 km/hr over 50 km but that was a pretty much dead calm day. When I started the ride I really didn't have any objective in mind but once I hit York Durham and started heading north I set a 30 km/hr average speed as my target to Bloomington Rd. Usually we do this portion of the ride averaging 28-29 km/hr and with the wind out of the north west I kind of had my doubts I'd average 30 but I watched my Garmin and kept an eye on the average speed and I was able to maintain it above 30 as I headed north. It's generally a climb all the way up to Bloomington and with the wind I could see my average dropping but as I hit a flat portion I'd jump on the pedals and pick up another tenth of a km or 2. The last couple of hundred metres to Bloomington hurt but I got up to the crest as York Durham joins Tenth Line and checked my Garmin and I was at 30.3 km/hr. That was satisfying. I continued up the climb north of Bloomington and on to Aurora Rd. and west towards Kennedy. The terrain is quite a bit flatter here but I still had the wind to contend with and while I did maintain a bit more speed it was a workout. South on Kennedy is rolling to Bloomington so no change in speed there but the rest of the way home was where I made up for the effort I had put in to that point. It was a 16 km sprint the rest of the way and I finished up at 52 km and a 32.7 km/hr average.