[bike] New Hampshire coast (now without doomful wind)

For last Sunday's ride, nuclearpolymer adapted last year's Seacoast Century half-century route, with one of the add-ins that makes the actual century add up to a hundred miles. That brought us up to pretty exactly 60 miles from the Hampton Beach State Park parking lot (in view of the Seabrook reactor) to Kittery and back. We didn't actually escape the parking lot until about 10, but got back there around 4, so about a 10 mph real average. Route map

This iteration of this ride did not have the killer headwind coming south, for which we were all thankful. The routing took us out via New Castle, which I always like, but the corresponding bit of road in Portsmouth was totally unpaved, which wasn't fun. Fairly high on the "flat" side, which I've discovered means there aren't any downhills to build up momentum on. The 10-mile inland section was actually kind of pretty and refreshingly shady.