I did a beach ride today with my friend. We rode from Yorba Linda to Huntington Beach and back. It was a training ride for me, for a race I might do next month, my first ever. The fastest I've ever done this ride was 18.1 with two girlfriends last Fall, all taking turns drafting. Today, with just my one friend, I got an 18.9! I was SO excited! My goal was 19, but I'm thrilled with the 18.9, especially in light of the fact that my friend bonked near the end of the ride, wasn't pulling as fast as she had been, told me to go on without her and then I rode the last 5-ish miles by myself, in a head wind. We would have had the 19 if we could have kept our pace together. We'll do it another time, though. I'm so proud of us!!! That's my fastest time on any ride ever, other than on the tandem.