absolutely amazing that one could ride almost 50 miles without going up or down AT ALL! 283' is the amount i have to climb or descend to go a few blocks in either direction
you'll have no problem with that ride as long as :
1) you don't go too fast. find the unassisted speed at which you're at 60% of your max HR, and stay there. if your speed starts dropping due to wind, fatigue, hills, cramps, aches, pains, etc, then turn on the motor!
2) your seat, bars, and pedals are correctly positioned relative to each other and your body. adjust your hand position frequently. get off the saddle and ride standing up for a minute every 10 minutes. use your gears to keep a natural cadence. NO GRINDING. take 5 or 10 minute stretch breaks every hour and a half.
3) you hydrate. a lot.
4) you eat. a good meal the night before. a good breakfast with a mix of sugars, fats, carbs 1.5 hours before you start. eat another couple hundred calories every hour or two. a good goal to is replace half the calories you're using while riding; lots of places to calculate the calories but your vado has a power meter, which is the most reliable way. very roughly, one watt hour on your power meter is 4 calories. so 100 watts for an hour is 400 calories. eat 200. do not eat large amounts of anything slow/hard to digest like dairy or meat.
5) you start early. figure 6 or 7 hours of riding and an hour of stopping. by noon you really want to be heading north given the temperature and wind. strongly recommend a 7am start. breakfast at 6. a 17mph crosswind at 87 degrees isn't going to be all that fun. you want to minimize the amount of riding you're doing after 1pm. if it was me, i'd leave at 6am and wouldn't even stop for more than a minute or two until i had turned around past the halfway point, preferably by 9am. then that SW wind will start pushing me home as it gets hot!!
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