YTD – 466.58
MTD – 195.35
Today – 15.69
As chronicled here I set on a stunning Sunday afternoon for a “not lunch” ride. After a visit from a high school friend of my wife’s with a new baby I cleaned up quick and then headed out to meet up with TS for a ride. I left my bag of stinking workout clothes at work so I had nothing even resembling biking gear. Oh well, I met up with Tim and he had decked out cycling gear(as expected) although not exactly matching jersey and shorts heavily emblazoned with adverts.
We left out heading to St Matthews and I was soon unaware of where exactly we were. I had far flung plans of entering the ride into Map My Ride that I quickly abandoned. We pushed further east and ended up in Indian Hills. It was there that I realized just how awesome the day and the ride was. TS’s extensive riding history led to great roads to ride with really minimal traffic. We shot across River Road and headed up to Cherokee/Seneca. The weather brought out plenty of nices things to look at as we tooled through the park. There was also no shortage of streaking race riders on fancy bikes. Speaking of bikes – we had a few laughs at my.. uh.. let’s see…”vintage” bike. The good news is the bike works. The bad news is that is not really suited to the purpose I use it for. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter I guess, but I do go to bed with visions of road bikes dancing in my head.
We caught a little Tyler Park, Germantown, and Audobon as we made it back to my “upper Highlands” neighborhood. We made the split at the Tennis Center and were good for about 32 miles. That was my first ride with a partner and I really enjoyed the company. I hope to do it again soon.
32 miles is the most I’ve put down and I could feel it today. I choose a pretty flat route down to the Falls of the Ohio and resigned myself to just kinda take easy. The funny thing is I knocked it down in 59 minutes which is my best time for that particular route. Its funny that way but the ride felt good and God knows the weather was perfect. I am hoping for no rain or little rain for tomorrow. I am certainely in position to get my 200 miles in for the month and I am barrelling down on my first 500 miles.
TS brought up my ol’ favorite Lucero – so here is a little of that to close.
So long….
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