Caught a solid ride today while Michelle and the troops were at the Gurney Tourney but I didn’t take into account how g-damn hot it was going to be. Here’s a grab of the temp at 4 in the afternoon. I don’t even want to know what it was when I was out there at noon. I need a bigger water bottle…

Here’s the 26+ miles I knocked out:

I really like the run out to the Battlefield on Osbourne Tnpk. so I stretched it out to get all the way to the boat landing. It’s a really, really pretty ride and it caught me completely by surprise. One of the things I love best about these bicycle excursions is that I get to see parts of the City that I don’t know anything about and I get to really see them because I’m not flying by at 50 miles an hour. I took small detours up around the boat landing and again into the Battlefield Park before heading back into town via Route 5. I definitely prefer making a loop as opposed to going A<->B because the scenery changes are nice but more because you don’t have to slog up and down the same hills twice.
I want to mix it up a bit now and I might look to head out West for my next ride or maybe North to Ashland. So many roads!