August 12 Rides

[RolliePollie]

40.12 miles and about 3,000' of climbing for me this afternoon...and my thigh muscles are complaining about it! I rode in the heat of the day (not too hot...probably about 85) and for some reason, my body felt great. This is the longest distance I've ridden here locally and it was a great ride.

Two kind of weird/negative things...I stopped at two different vineyards to refill my water bottles. Both places did end up filling my bottles for me, but they acted really funny about it. I guess I'll have to keep trying different places until I find some friendlier folks. Then I passed a guy on a mountain bike, and I guess he did not appreciate it, because he suddenly flew by me and said "catch me if you can, you little p*s*y" which completely scared me to death so I put my hand on my pepper spray, made a quick u-turn, and took off the other way.

Here are some pics of where I ride...it's a little smoky and hazy today so they didn't turn out that great.