Back to work on Wednesday

Rode in to work as flat a route as I can, and didn't try to push the effort, but still got too warm with the fleece jacket I'd gotten at WalMart on Monday evening.  During the ride that lateral quads were feeling a bit sore.  Now that I've been sitting here too long, the anterior quads are starting to stiffen and feel sore.

Have calculated the ride time based on the distance and the average speed I was keeping track of in the morning as I was approaching the end.  The Mavic ALTI has yet to behave as advertise, so I can't trust it to be able to record the data i'd like to.
Avg Speed of 13.7mph, leads to a rolling time of 18:24 and stopped time of 7:06
Longest stops were in Pacific Beach, Cape Brown, repairing  flat approaching Hoquim, getting warm and dry in Aberdeen, restocking water in Westport, and then a 'power nap' on the porch of the Sharon, WA Grange Hall.


Lessons Learned (in no particular order):

• do tie off the ends of the helmet light mount.  If not, they flap around making a clicking sound and irritate the scalp a bit.
• do rinse off the helmet after each ride, to ride of dirt, sweat, and sunscreen.
• I ate about 1/2 of what I'd expected to eat, i.e. I brought too much food.  The bagels were hard to chew on, as were the Fig Newtons.  The frozen burritos did better, maybe because I had to stop to eat them. 
• Cutting off the end of the closed snack bag is a good way to get the contents (like the Vande Valde bars) out without breaking them to bits.
• On more than one occasion, I'd get off the bike and realize that I had a full bladder.  Most embarrassing was outside my room door, I couldn't stop the flow and I actually created a puddle on the landing. This is of course after 25 1/2 hour from the beginning and a good 7 liters consumed.
• the Planet Bike Super Flasher logic got messed up, I'd had found it early turned on, after I'd turned them off in the morning.  The switch wasn't working, so I had to remove the batteries, and then the switch would sequence through the modes properly.  When I had the flat around 6:30PM, I replaced the batteries, and it still didn't work.  Good thing I had two, so I new I had at least one back there.  Checking the batteries back at home, all four were in good shape.
• Amtrak's baggage rules are that folding bikes are allowed only in  the storage area at the end of the car.  This counters the Station Agent in Centralia, who said that it couldn't be more than 28 in in any direction.  Those measures are 28x22x14 for carry ons.  The BF in its  bag is 38x18x32.
• Don't ride alone overnight.  the dark road with only the headlight spot to pay attention to is monotonous.  So either with someone else (to provide conversation) or with a rest time between about 03:00AM and 05:00AM
• The extra weight of carry a pair of thermal leggings is minor, I was glad to have had the long fingered gloves, and used them.  The REI screaming yellow jacket was just to porous, and only really kept the wind off.  Jeff mentioned not needing to use his Showers Pass Jacket, I'm thinking that along with the tights would have saved me a good hour searching in the WalMart.
• find a good way to keep that cell phone dry!  Or get a SPOT device.
• Between being mentally tired and physically tired the average speed went way down, and I stopped enough to have trouble keeping up to 10mph.