A fantastic little ride this morning. After the string of crappy Saturdays, weather-wise, it was a joy to actually be out with some sun, and little wind. It was nice enough that I peeled off the armwarmers midway through the 60km ride. Another reason I was pretty warm was that we had a quick little group running this morning. Once the whole group got a few miles out, about 5 of us took off up the road at a nice clip. Being young, spry, overly competitive, and with three cups of coffee running through my system, I was in the lead for a little over half the ride. Most of the way we were holding a solid 36-38 km/h so we were done earlier than expected. I was never in any difficulty during the ride, so this was a nice confidence boost that my cycling legs are at least around the same place they were last year.
At one point on the way back, we got integrated with a trio of roadies. I was sitting back a bit helping pace one of the guys who was struggling, and our other riders were drafting off these new guys. Well, there's no way I was going to stand for the roadies setting the pace, so once I knew our guy was back with the group, I set off at 42 km/h, just to spice things up for about a mile or two. Folks blew up, we lost the roadies, I succumb to my competitiveness yet again. Good times, good time.
Bike: ~60km, 120 minutes
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