Stats

These won't be super fancy stats from my recent bike tour. I can't fairly blame this on the fact that my in-house statistician, J, is on a plane to Denver. (I join her tomorrow: Wynkoop, ready the casks!)

I do have some basic stats:

DAY 1
Atlanta to Macon
miles: 83.23
riding time: 6:15:12
maximum speed: 30.0
average speed: 13.3

DAY 2
Macon
(a very short day, due to sticking around in Macon to see if I could get my implant abutment re-placed, which I couldn't. It was also a nice excuse to not ride too much in the one-day thunderstorms that swept through the area.)
miles: 19.08
riding time: 1:31:49
maximum speed: 27.0
average speed: 12.4

DAY 3
Macon to Swainsville
miles: 90.28
riding time: 6:51:56
maximum speed: 36.5
average speed: 13.1

DAY 4
Swainsville to Savannah
miles: 86.79
riding time: 6:58:35
maximum speed: 22.5
average speed: 12.4
I was literally riding into a stiff headwind almost the entire day: the only exception was the first five miles. Just look at the day's maximum speed. There were MANY downhills where I had to pedal hard to maintain speed. I'm not gonna lie to you: it kinda sucked.

TOTALS
miles: 279.38
riding time, rounded to minutes: 22 hours, 53 minutes (I think I did the math correctly. Feel free to comment that I messed it up. Dammit, I need my in-house mathematician!)
daily maximum speed, average: 29mph (wow: there's a totally useless statistic, eh?)
average speed, over trip: 12.8

Marginally interesting is that my highest average speed came on the first day, even though Atlanta to Macon is by far the hilliest part of the trip, and included google maps dropping me onto dirt and gravel roads a couple times:

Actually, this image is from day three. Just past this sign was a 2.5 mile stretch of loose gravel road, which is moderately difficult riding on a loaded touring bike with 700c road slicks, especially since it was uphill, then down, then up, and down again. Increasing the difficulty was one of the largest, most actively aggressive dogs of all those that charged me on the ride.