I want to ride faster

[Geonz]

...thank you for sharing your advice. My tires are 32cc. A good ride for me is 42 miles at 14.8 mph, with some small hills, no big grades. I really don't do much climbing here in Ohio, it's more like little rollers.

That link is amazing! I have so much to learn, gotta admit a lot of those variables go right over my head.

Geonz, my ambition is to do RAIN, but I cannot see myself averaging 17.9 on my bike, but your story gives me hope!

Colleen

As weather goddess, I brought a tailwind. Since it's a one-way ride, it helped a lot

Is that 14.8 under your own power or in a group? I ended up linking up with folks for big chunks of RAIN , and of course a paceline sticks another 2 or 3 mph onto your speed. I'm fortunate in that we have a Tuesday Tour that goes long miles at 14-15... and I learned how to do the paceline thing at those speeds, with just a few people in sort of a "low-key" way before I ever got on speedier ones.