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| Garmin Stats from today's ride |
Annual Coronado Express ride today. I rode over to the Oceanside Pier. Started out foggy in San Marcos. Had my single Planet Bike headlamp and the new found Portland Design rear blinkie. Got there way too early so I stopped at DJ's Donut way south on Coast Highway and had a split top with choc frosting. Ugggh. Way to sweet for me. Rolled north and got my pre-start receipt at the Circle K at Sportfisher St. Gals there had some problem with a transient taking stuff so the O'side Police were there too. Filled my bottle with ice and headed over to the Pier. Keith Olsen joined up just before the 0730 start and we were off. Just us two Randos.
Arm warmers and woolie cap were enough as the sun was coming out and it was warming up quick. NCCC rider Phil Auchter joined up at Magee Park. Keith and Phil are both into taxes and accounting, so they had a lot to talk about on our ride to Swami's stop in Encinitas.
Bruce Tipton, Dr. Dan Marks and new rando wannabe Dave Danovsky joined up at Swami's. No hurry. We hung out a bit and soon started south. Dave commutes 3x a week from Clairmont to Carlsbad on his TREK. I met him on his commute and gave him the trusty Rando Card. This would be his longest ride ever! We went straight up through Del Mar. NCCC climber, Tony Long, joined up at the base of Torrey Pines. The group split up on the climb... some took the inside route. Regroup at the top for a handy banana refill stop. Also water in the tanks for us! Very handy for cyclists or joggers.
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| Ferry pulling into Coronado landing. |
No hurry and not the usual "race pace" to catch the 1000 ferry this time. Now they have the optional ferry running from the Convention Centre every hour-on-the-half hour. We arrived at 0930, bought our tickets and sat around watching people walk by. Tony and Dave were both Navy guys, so they chatted about divorce & stuff! Soon we loaded up and got comfy for the trip across the bay. After a relaxing trip, we hit the bathrooms on Coronado and Bruce found a local place to fill our bottles with ice.
Had a 19 mph pace-line rolling along on the Bikeway. Saw rando Greg Sherman who was riding northward. ( He emailed he was waiting for us at the National City Control and didn't know we were riding the route in reverse around the Bay). Nice quick pace around the salt flats as we regrouped at the Frontage Road. Slight headwind as we plodded around to Harbor Drive. Dan and Bruce split off and headed north on Harbor Drive. The rest of us went straight over to the JIB/Circle K Control on Roosevelt Street.
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| Dave, Dan, Keith, Bruce, Tony & Kelly on ferry |
We hung out for about 20 minutes and had something to eat. I brought along my tuna sandwich and added a dessert of one ice cream sandwich. Bottles filled, we took the back way around Harbor Drive through Barrio Logan. New guy Dave was fired up and leading out into the headwind. Good with us as we followed along behind. Not much traffic through downtown San Diego. After a few stoplights, Dave was still pulling us along good. Past Old Town, Tony took over and upped the pace a bit. Dave soon dropped off the back as his lack of long ride experience and headwind pulling had it's effect. We regrouped on Mission Bay Drive before Dave made his turn for home. He had a good ride today and fit in well with the group.
Now down to Keith, Tony and me, the group stopped at Mission Bay for a whiz-bang. We managed the Rose Creek Bike Trail OK and caught a long light at the Mission Bay Dr. crossing. Tony amped it up on Rose Canyon, where there was still standing water from the recent rains to ride around. We took Scholar Dr. and skirted the SDSU Campus. Tony thought he might stop by Performance Bike in Sorrento Valley to check out the Bib & Shorts deals. We bid farewell to him in Carmel Valley, where he cut across the parking lot. Good ride for him. (His longest ride this year!)
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| Tony noticed a few cleavage shots today! |
Keith and I had a nice pace up the climb through Del Mar and the coast. Encinitas was prepping for a Holiday Parade at 4:00 PM. We did stop at Nytro for a water refill and rode the parade route ahead of Santa Claus. Saw Lisa Nicholson and Elaine Perry riding south at LaCosta Blvd. Keith said they were doing their Sunset Beach 200. We soon picked up a big-fast looking rider on a white bike. He was a little nervous about us tagging along and kept picking up the pace. He didn't like stop signs much either. He finally relented to our pressure and we chatted to Carlsbad, where he turned around. He is a lawyer from Irvine and rides with the police up there. Keith & I rode made a straight dash for the final Circle K control for our finish receipt just after 4:30.
Good ride today with Keith. He is losing weight and riding better. I ended up taking the Sprinter Train back to San Marcos. Not a bad ride today. Got in some speed work and out-of-the-saddle climbing. Felt good the whole day with no tendon soreness.
Partly cloudy
Hi: 87 Lo: 59 (Garmin)
102 miles (official)
-randorides
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