Quick 36 mile ride this afternoon after work and before I had to pick up SKnot from school.

Flossie goes much faster than the commutermobile. I'm thinking easily 2 or 3 mph faster. First time I've done a regular ride with my computer on Flossie, so I was watching my stats. Fun.

Beautiful fall day with blue skies and comfy temps. I rode on a bike path, and found Salsa! She was starting, I was ending, but we rode along for a way, then stopped to look for salmon in the river.

Saw lots of ducks, woolybear caterpillars, a squished snake, and a big splash that might have been a salmon.

Watched some school kids doing a bike class at the velodrome. (How come my PE classes weren't like that?) There was one girl with looooong braids who was clearly enamoured of the bike-thing. The other kids were participating, and quit as soon as they could; but this girl was listening to the bike and totally into it and rode around the track a few more times after it was time to quit. The coach recognized she was into it, and said something to her about it. Future biker, there.