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The Portland Velo Club Tuesday Night Ride (TNR) is a 50 mile training ride that occurs on Tuesday nights from April to September starting and finishing at Cyclemania on Federal Street in Portland. The loop features among other things a long grinding climb on Blackstrap Road, a relentless climb up Dutton Road, a steep and not exactly short climb up Depot Road, a long climb on Orchard Road and a fast sprint finish on Route 88 in Falmouth. It is a fast and challenging training ride. For the past two years, the route has been altered to avoid some very rough pavement at Depot Road and instead has included a dirt road section, which has not lessened the challenge of the ride in anyway (and if anything has made it more difficult). Frame and Wheel joined the ride for the first time this year with perhaps twenty other riders and team mates. Conditions were dry and calm with temperatures in the 70s. Frame and Wheel tracks the ride with an Android smartphone and adds some labels to highlight the key features of the ride. Total distance is 50 miles, total duration is 140 minutes, average moving speed is 22 miles per hour, maximum speed is 41 miles per hour, maximum elevation is 460 feet and total elevation gain is 2,500 feet and maximum grade is 10% (perhaps somewhere on Dutton Hill Road). It was good to be on the ride again.
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Frame and Wheel joined the Portland Velo Club Saturday Morning Ride for the first time since perhaps March, taking advantage of an opening in the race schedule. Conditions were dry and temperatures were in the low 60s. Frame and Wheel estimates that there were between 80 to 100 riders on this ride, and thus the pace was fast all the way through. Frame and Wheel tracked the ride with the Android martphone. Total distance is 48 miles, total duration is 142 minutes, average moving speed is 20 miles per hour, maximum speed is 38 miles per hour, maximum elevation is 67 feet, total elevation gain is 1,717 feet and maximum grade is 6%.
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