Two fairly epic rides...

Thursday: Solo ride, trying out a new favorite loop in SE MN, featuring a scenic and twisty descent followed by a tough climb (tough enough that a lumber truck overheated halfway up the hill and started rolling backwards!) The last section of my loop was a no-go, as what was once a normal road got washed out and replaced with gravel. 63.3 miles/3366'.

Sunday: Weekend ladies' ride, epic edition, with only three riders. We hit two climbs that surprisingly I'd never done before (I scored a QOM!!!), and despite hitting 40+MPH on the descents, the other two gals killed it and left me in the dust. What made the ride epic was a bunch of rollers straight into a 15MPH headwind (with some crazy gusts as well), which we got through with some good teamwork. 52.5 miles/2546'.

Friday and Saturday were a bit warm - temps in the mid to high 90s F, with heat indices of 110-115, so I did a bit of tooling around and errand time on the single speed in the evenings.