Woo! Woo! I went riding today. I dunno -- maybe I should put this in a thread by itself. I am SO happy.

My SO and I went on a 14.58 mi ride today. I AVERAGED 14.4 mph! I have never come even close to this!

I did not bonk.


I attribute my successful happy ride to everyone's advice and suggestions!
I got a really night's sleep!
I ate the, hopefully, a proper breakfast one hour and 15 minutes before we left.
I really hydrated myself before we left.
We stopped at 30 minutes and I had a snack and sports drink. (We weren't going to be on the trail 90 minutes this time because I wasn't going 10 mph!)
And then when we got back my Garmin Edge 500 gave me all that neat news!
I also wore sunglasses on this ride and my last ride. Could this possibly be helping with not "bonking"?

We also studied the trail map over and over again. We made sure we knew where the turns were and what direction we should turn! If you look at my ride you can see we didn't backtrack ever.

My ride is here: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/565753385

I still don't think I could have done that with ut all of the advice you wonderful cyclists offered!
And I felt so good when I got home I washed my bike. I love my white Ruby Elite but I am not so sure buying a white bike is the best for keeping clean.
Now I have other questions . . .but that's another thread!