I had a good day yesterday. In the middle of a 44 km ride I decided to see how close I could come to Carmichael's 'highly fit' category by riding 3 miles in 8 minutes. I've only been back at this for a couple months so I knew it would be a challenge.
My Cateye is set to km, so I made a calculation and was off. Made it in exactly 8 minutes... later I realized my body was more fit than my brain as I had actually gone only 2.7 miles in those 8 minutes. Still I was satisfied to haul these 61 year old bones along that quickly.
Later in the ride things got better. As I made the turn onto a busy 4 lane arterial I finally had the wind at my back and a flat road that eventually went downhill. Being able to keep up with 35 mile an hour traffic makes vehicular cycling all that much more fun, especially when you come to a sharp curve and are faster than the cars.
If I'd laid off the home made ice cream when I got home, the day would have been perfect.