overnight

there was something exhilarating about peddling last evening before sunset... wonder how fast I was going... surely I hit 20mph... seems FAST... and a little dangerous if one would crash...

I remember several years ago... riding a friends really nice and fast roadbike with a speedometer... I can't remember the fastest I went... seems like it was 24 or 25 miles per hour... I remember hitting a wall... by that I mean I felt my legs could have peddled much faster etc. but the wind resistance was too much to overcome...

anyway, today I counted my peddling... I was thinking there must be a way to estimate my speed...

I tried to watch my breathing and my peddling... I think I was peddling about two revolutions a second... that is probably close... just now I went to my bike and measured distance... I estimate that a 1/4 peddle is 7 feet... that is 28 feet per peddle... and at 2 peddle revolutions per second, that is 56 feet per second... which, comes out to about 19 mile per hour... that is probably close...

I mean it is in the ballpark... the math is right... it was a complete estimate for me to say I was peddling at 2 revolutions per second... I know it was a lot faster than 1 rev/sec, but to say it was 2 revs/sec is just a guess... but with that I get 19mph... so it is close...

interesting...