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Today is the last day in Zanesville. The weather was warmer today than on my Sunday ride but the hills are still here. It was 70.3 degrees, scattered clouds, 81% humidity, breeze from the WSW at 2.0 mph and gusts of 7.0 mph. Because of this I was able to ride without leg warmers but I still used a long sleeve and short sleeve jerseys. After a couple of miles of hills I was warmed up to where the 65 degrees at my start time was not even noticed.
The route overlapped my Sunday route somewhat but I did get an extra mile or two. While I was riding around the Zanesville Municipal Airport a private twin-prop plane took off. When I was growing up Lake Shore Airlines used to fly DC-3’s on a scheduled basis to Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other cities from this airport. That has long since disappeared.
After all of these hills I think I would have no problem with the hills at the Pineywoods Purgatory in Lufkin. This ride has some large hills on the 65 mile route.
Today’s ride statistics:
- miles 22.33
- riding time 1:41:36
- average pace 4:32 min/mile
- average speed 13.2 mph
- max speed 29.4 mph
- average cadence 63 rpm
- max cadence 99 rpm
- Elevation Gain: 1,091 ft.. Elevation Loss: 1,077 ft.
- Min Elevation: 749 ft., Max Elevation: 996 ft.
- September miles 224.39
- YTD miles 3991.27
I did not take pictures on the Sunday ride so I went back today and took some of the points of interest on the route. The first picture is a steel bridge from the National Highway that was the major road west when Ohio was settled. This later became US 40. The steel bridge is at the Zane Grey and National Highway Museum on US 40 and I-70 across from Baker’s Motel. Picture two is a mileage marker from the National Highway also at the Zane Grey Museum. Along the National Highway were a number of “S” bridges. This one is on the west edge of New Concord. Pictures three and four are “S” bridge related. Picture five is a marker at the Zane Grey Museum commemorating Col. Ebenezer Zane who cut Zane’s Trace Trail in 1797 into the Ohio Territory. Picture six is some early road construction equipment at the museum.
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