First post in months. Accept for about 3 wks of trips, have ridden 3-4 days a week all summer. Today was hot 90f, humid, and about 15mph head wind. Like riding in a sauna. One of the two roads that were closed this summer finally opened, so my ride is almost back to normal.

Yesterday, came about as close to being whacked as ever. North bound on two lane rural road, oncoming car decides to pass another car, swinging out and accelerating like he's actully going to get somewhere at 5 pm on a monday. I don't think he even saw me on the narrow shoulder on my side of road, I was concentrating on the broken pavement ahead, and didn't realize what was happening until I felt the wind from his rear view mirror on my hand. Don't really know what our closure rate was but I was doing about 20mph, speedlimit in the area is 45, traffic was farely light, so I think the car being passed was doing the limit, passing car probably 50-60, I can easily believe the closure rate was around 80, absolutely no time to react and hit the ditch. If he had been over a few more inches, I'd not be writing this.

Be careful out there.