Barking at shovels

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So I tried a sprint on the bike path, just to see how high I could actually get the speedometer on straight level ground: 40.5 km/h. For reference, the riders in the Tour de France sustain more than fifty for an entire hour-long time-trial.

Of course, they have better bikes.

I don't know if it was the sprint or going out without really having had enough breakfast, but it kicked my ass. I rode the next twenty minutes feeling like Andre the Giant had just dropped an elbow in my stomach. Still and all, my end time was not as bad as I thought it might be -- would have been a record if I'd done it before Friday's ride.

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