So today I got to get back on the pavement for a two and a half hour ride. It was hot, and the wind was fierce. I have a bad habit of mistaking a tailwind for a headwind when I set out, probably because I am usually slow to warm up and I feel like I am working harder than I need to. This makes the ride back home a better workout and much more demeaning. If you are damaging your self confidence, then you aren't really training, right? Anyway, the weather was actually really nice today. I believe I increased my freckle count exponentially today riding around in the afternoon sun. My loop followed a big river for the majority of the ride, and views like this are very tempting when it is ninety and humid.
I felt pretty good after warming up (do you really need to warm up on a ninety degree day?) and was able to make good time for the second half of the ride. Just a few more short rides and hopefully a good day down at Coyote hill this Sunday.
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