A gentle ten mile ride near home today. Yesterday, though, Indiana Department of Homeland Security issued a Heat Alert for Central Indiana and families were urged to stay indoors or in the shade. Really.
We took the Screamer to Columbus and rode 48 hot, humid miles in Bartholomew and Brown counties with a small group. 1250 feet of climbing and also some water left over from torrential rains on Friday. Most of the group went ahead through the flooded section but we took the opportunity to turn back and got to the lunch stop before the others - no wait for ordering!


It wasn't all hills and flooded roads: