Strong winds today! I headed out on the long route this morning. Just as I approached the turn which would take me to town with a tailwind, I saw another cyclist...the first I've met commuting outside of town. He came up the end of a really steep saddle, went to the top of the hill and stopped to take off his jacket, so I turned the wrong way for a little bit to chat with him. He said he always goes from Kaukauna to his family's cabin by bike...which means that he had been riding 25 miles or so already into a killer headwind. (Poor guy!) Anyway, the wind pushed me along to town at a rapid pace.

The way home wasn't so much fun. I was meeting my mother in Green Bay for a movie, and was on a tight schedule, so I took the short route, which means I got to contend with holiday weekend traffic as well as killer headwinds. The struggle to be on time probably built muscle, though. (And I was on time for the movie--barely!)

So, it was a good day. At the moment, though, typing sucks because I just gave a banana chunk to my pet rat and the enthusiastic little moron missed it and sunk his razor fangs into my typing finger. Grrrr.....