You know, Joe and Pete, I'm thinking I read somewhere long ago that drinking ice water might not be wise when you're exerting--maybe that's what kept me from accepting the firefighters' ice.

Anyway, I pushed it today--rode to Westport via Hospital Hill--JRamsey will know what I'm talking about--and was careful to drink plenty going and coming, and also poured some on me at the top of that awful hill! I'd forgotten, though: there's another one almost as bad right after it....

I wish I had an inclinometer to find out what angle some of these hills are. I know it's easy to make one but I never have bothered.

Or an altimeter so I could calculate the percent of grade...

Too much heat. My spreadsheet mentality is taking over.