Limited Tracking Today via APRS and Ham Radio
We did our usual Friday thing today, hauling food and cooking materials to the LDS Institute at UNM for their Friday Forum & Feed.
The forecast was for "Breezes" later this afternoon but when we stuck our heads out about 1:00 PM it was VERY gusty.
We decided to ride anyway, but drove first down to the Albuquerque Bio Park to start the ride from, since it is quite level from there no matter which way you go on the adjacent Bosque Trail. That way if we wimped out it wouldn't be a disaster to get back to the car, as compared to the long stiff uphill climb if we tried to start from UNM, which is downhill all the way to Old Town and the Bosque Trail but bad news going back the same way... we've tried it and didn't like it.
We think our decision to start from the Bio Park turned out fortunate for us. After rolling north only about 4 miles I got so chilled and tired from fighting the south-bound headwinds that I talked my ever eager back seat stroker into turning around and making a shorter trip over to Old Town instead. This was a much more enjoyable short-trip since the houses and trees blocked the wind quite a bit and made for much easier pedaling.
We goofed around Old Town Plaza for at least a half hour and finally went back to the dino-powered vehicle and enjoyed getting out of the wind and basking in the gasoline-powered heat radiating inside the Ford.
Beginning Battery Voltage: 12.5 Ending Voltage: 12.3
Lowest Temp 45 F Highest Temp: 49 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 9.40
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
4.9 MPH 6.7 MPH 13.2 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 55 mins 1 hour 24 mins 30 minutes 37 seconds
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