Road cycle (Giro) 1:22:56 30.25 km (2:45 / km) +28m2:44 / km ahr:139 max:158 shoes: D2 2D yellow mountain
First instalment of drone footage of the marsh. I had picked a section with light traffic that should show how the crops develop over the season. I’ll try to do this route once a week until the harvest.
It was quite windy, turns out a bit too windy. Westbound speed was 17km/hr, northbound 23, eastbound 30. The drone did a pretty nice job tracking from my right side. It adjusted nicely around corners (one example clip on Facebook/Instagram.
I should have changed the tracking to rear view when I started going faster with the tailwind. A gust pushed the drone into a hydro pole before it could adjust at 30km/hr. The drone warns of high winds and asked to land just before it crashed. No real harm done since it landed in a grassy ditch. A tiny nick on two propellers, which I replaced. Everything as good as new.
Road cycle (Giro) 2:49:58 65.68 km (2:35 / km) +161m2:33 / km ahr:144 max:161 shoes: D2 2D yellow mountain
I thought I should take advantage of the last warm day for a bit, so went up to Lake Simcoe to cruise the south shore.
I couldn’t send Mrs a live track because my phone had no data. Turns out it couldn’t send a message or place a call either. I tried a few times over the course of the ride, but still don’t have functional Rogers service.
The theme of the day was tiny blackfly sized bugs, usually in swarms. They made it important to not work hard enough to need big mouth breaths, not that I need an excuse to take it easy.
The wind shifted west at about the time I made the extreme eastern point of my ride, which meant 20km back into a headwind. At least I got to finish with about 6 km of a push.