I had two good bike rides today. The first was a 65-mile ride with a 6-person group for 55 miles, plus 5 miles each to and from the start. It was pretty laid back, at a conversational pace that ended up being 17-1/2 mph overall. After doing 200 miles in the Blue Ridge Mountains the week before last, and a 100-mile mountain ride last Saturday, I still felt remarkably energetic after doing ‘just’ 65 miles today.
The second ride was with Pete on the trails behind our neighborhood. He had wanted to have a friend for a sleepover, but the friend he asked couldn’t come and it was too late for another invitation. He looked kind of down, so to cheer him up, I asked him to go for a ride. It worked: At one point he was singing as he rode along just in front of me. When we got back, we watched the first hour of the Bristol race until he had to go to bed.