There are a couple short descents on my usual routes where I routinely push 40 mph - I am somewhat 'gravity enhanced' - but one day gravity and a tailwind got together to get me up to 45 on one of them. For folks who know San Mateo, it was on Alameda de las Pulgas by Aragon HS.
Then the city in its infinite wisdom reset the timing on the traffic light at the point of maximum velocity so that I can't depend on it being green when I get there, so I've had to moderate my enthusiasm there.
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