21 miles as a bike commuter today. Very mugly this morning and hot/humid in the pm. But no rain/thunderboomers while riding.

Very strong winds from the North so I headed West into the mountains. Beautiful day, lots of climbing to0 much for this old man. I thought the small roads that intersected the roads heading into the mountains turned into dirt roads a few hundred feet in, but today I found a paved one for 4 miles that led to the river. 47 miles with lots of long climbs.https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e201132b1d.jpg

This is only 10 minutes from my house, never knew it was there.

Short but hilly ride this morning. Drove up to San Antonio, FL, with one of my cycling teammates for a change of pace to my daily route. The area is pretty hilly, for Florida, so since neither of us have ridden that area in several years we opted to do the 20 mile route. Had a 974' elevation gain and for this area of Florida, that's quite a bit. Some nice scenery on that route.

Did the 22 mile loop with a very strong fast group of guys (8 total). Which might have been a mistake, because tomorrow I'm supposed to do 100 miles!

12 casual miles Tuesday afternoon for errands. Incredibly hot, peaking at 104F. I just took it easy and cut through some quiet neighborhoods to avoid much exertion on the heavy errand bike.

I did my usual 10 mile ride but started out extra early because of the holiday traffic that will clog up everything later on.

I get that some days. I fight a head wind the entire ride out and by the time I'm heading back, the wind has changed direction and I'm fighting a head wind the entire ride back.

NOPE! Way too many cars and PARTIES.

38 mile tandem club ride from Carmel to Dairy Queen in Sheridan and back to Carmel, where most of us ate lunch at an Italian place. Food/fellowship very good but weather Hot and Humid.
Kinda flat, too; don't believe I shifted down onto the little ring.

Yes, yesterday's 100 mile ride definitely would have gone better if I'd been on rested legs. But I gladly would've dealt with the tired legs if I could have avoided the 90°F temps/80% humidity, or the desperately-in-need-of-maintenance drivetrain that was creaking/grinding like it was going to explode at any minute all the way from mile 5 to the end! (In addition to being way overdue for a new chain & cassette I'm pretty sure my bottom bracket bearings are toast. Not sure how that happened...)

But yeah, another 100 miles in the books.

Today I'll probably ride all of about 8 miles: Getting my other bike back from the shop. And then I can bring this one in. Ugh.

Rode with a local shop on their annual, 4th of July ride out to a microbrewery/winery in Plant City, yesterday. It wasn't as good as last year's ride but it was fast. Got to the van and added another 10 miles to the ride for a total of 51 miles.

Today's solo ride was an easy 40 mile ride. My legs had a pre-ride conference with me to lay out the ground rules for the ride. They won!

Got in 25 on the 4th.
Have been riding the vintage bikes for many weeks but switched to a more modern drivetrain today.
Dang, ….those 11/12 cogs are tough on a false flat uphill! :eek:
But so fast on the return leg! :love:

Here's what I took. (last year's pic, but unchanged)

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Trainer day 12 mi @ 16 mph avg. One of my best trainer workouts. Tomorrow should be interesting. New neighbor riding with me for first time. Goal 30 miles.

Hottest day I've ridden so far this summer. 89°. I never felt overheated, that will come later this summer when the temps will be 95+. Still stopped at three irrigation canals and one State park to soak my jersey and sunsleeves. 50 miles. I still need to drink more water, I took one insulated bottle 1/2 full of frozen water and a small bottle full, frozen solid

26.6 mi @ 11.6 avg and climbed 1,200 ft. Rode w 70 YO neighbor for the first time. I can't keep up with him - wow what difference. But he will be a Great neighbor. I really need someone to challenge me and make me work harder.

24 miles on the Klein mountain bike - out and back ride. Took it easy knowing the next two days I'll put in some decent mileage.

19 mile commuting round trip. The homeward leg was south with a 14 mph north wind. My moving average with 16 mph, much better than my norm.

34,2 mi RT commute. Nice low 70F weather for a changes (as opposed to the 35 mi I did on Tuesday in 95F with high RH). Kind of windy but at my back on the way in, and against me on the way back, which is good by me.

I did 18.3 miles this morning at a very relaxed flower sniffing pace.
A perfect 68 degrees with no humidity, like we had earlier in the week.

Yesterday was going to be a 60 mile ride but the thunderstorms moved in a bit early leaving me with 40 miles. Did another 40 solo miles this morning. Very hot and humid but there was a nice breeze that helped a lot.