DH and I rode to the local farmer's market, hardware store, and food co-op on our Bike Fridays with full panniers. We bought $100 worth of HEAVY groceries at the co-op (in addition to plenty of organic produce at the farmer's market), and going the 15 miles home with a full load was slow and hard! He weighed my bike with the panniers on when we got home -- 62.5 lbs!!! I weighed only 40 lbs more than that on my bathroom scale this morning so was toting about 60% of my body weight up every hill -- and it's mostly uphill on the way home.

VERY tough ride, but I felt good to accomplish it! 32.4 miles total at a 12.5 mph pace.

Emily