Today we decided to join the Utah Velo Bike Club for their long Saturday ride.  It was going to be 72 miles and we know from past experience the pace would be very fast.  The weather forecast was for scattered thunderstorms and the temperature was cool, in the mid 40′s. But with that cold and wet ride in Zion a distant memory, we charged ahead.

We drove to the starting location in Springville.  Unlike most of our riding in California, the routes here tend to be rather flat.  I don’t think we did more than 1,000 feet of climbing the entire day.  As we excpected it was a fast pace ride.  I suppose there were maybe 40 riders all together, doing either the 32, 47 or 72 mile course.  The courses were common for awhile.  We were able to keep up with the lead riders through the whole ride.  The weather was great. It turned out to be sunny most of the day and by the middle of the ride we had taken our jackets off.  We ended the 72 miles in a total time of 4 hours, averaging 19.2 mph rolling.

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