Here in the Searing Desert, we had the nicest spring and early summer I can ever remember in 2023 - cool mornings, warm but entirely tolerable afternoons. Riding in 95° heat isn't bad at a 40° dew point. I was way up on mileage as compared to other years - not a record year, but definitely top-10. But the nice weather finally ended, we're back up to the usual 115°, and I just got back from a 16-day road trip where I didn't get any riding miles (too busy). I just need to re-establish my hard-earned fitness over the next few weeks to prepare for the 12 Hours of Sun City ride - an overnight ride where you have fun racking up miles on a quiet long loop and the sun isn't trying to kill you. Hoping to put in another 100+ miles on the Raleigh Pro or another fast bike on that ride. Then it's surviving on early morning rides until mid-September, when the weather (should) get tolerable again and get ready for the riding season to resume in earnest in mid-October thru early May.