Yay! I'm first.

I had originally planned to ride due north from my house. But that's toward the tornado damage, so I changed that.

It was the best riding day so far this year. Sunny, and according to MB the average temp was 51, wind av 8.1. It may have been a little cooler as that weather station is about 30 miles south of me.

I did head out north a little then turned off onto a road where I could do a little rolly climbing. I really worked and got my heart rate up. After that, I decided to explore a little and head out a road I have been wondering about. It's an old country road, parts were rather rough for skinny tires and the grades were a bit much in spots. Max grade was 14%. At one point I had an up, down, up section and ended up dropping the chain trying to shift through that.

On that road I discovered a horse rescue farm that I didn't know was there. I tried snapping a couple of pics, but haven't uploaded them yet and the glare was really bad so I don't know if they came out.

Then I hit some better pavement, newer section, and toodled along and headed into town. rode into town, then headed back home.

It was such a nice ride, with less layers than I've been wearing. 21.14 hilly miles.