Mr. Silver and I went on a fun journey today. The wind was blowing from the east so we decided to start our ride at the West end of the beach Road (West Beach). We drove out that way and parked the car and headed East. I led and Mr. followed. I could hardly manage 15 mph into the wind.

At Perdido Pass we crossed the bridge there. It's a pretty big bridge and qualifies as our only hill. I've never crossed a bridge on a bike before so that was a first.

We pushed east to the Florabama at the Florida/Alabama state line (about 17 miles). At the Florida line we lost our dedicated bike lane. Cars were very reluctant to give us space, but we pushed on. We wanted 50 miles. We continued to push on into Florida until the road turns away from the beach at Johnson Beach/ Innerarity Point). This was at 23 miles. We turned around.

With the wind at our backs we easily did 20-23 mph. Ahhh,,,so nice after the struggle into the wind. So we zipped back into Alabama. past the Florabama, over th Perdido Pass Bridge, past hwy 59. And back to west beach.

But we still didn't have 50 miles....just 46. So we turned back into the wind. Mr. says he's going to really push it and so he'll meet me back at the car. He passes me and cranks it. I fall in behind and him and suck his wheel. Surprised the ****ens out of him when he turned around and say me there a bit later. We turn back and finish out at 51. Near the end, I pulled up beside him and he tells me to go on, I challange him to race me and he pulls ahead and I can't keep up. He reaches the car first and looks like he's going to throw up. I avoid walking my bikeup on that side of him so that I'm not on the receiving end, but he recovers.

a very good ride!

However I had hoped to push my miles up a bit today, so later, I went out for a shorter slower ride in the neighborhood, adding another 13 miles to my total.

At the end of the day, I'm just so glad to be riding again after my horrible accident and witnessing Sam's even more horrible accident. I'm happy to be riding with my hubby. I've ridden 769.5 this year, and have moved up into the top ten of the riders posting to the Bike Journal, Team Estrogen club.