I'm sorry your ride was so rough, Lauren! I've had days like that.

Today we did a 37-mile loop in beautiful weather. It was a little windy but it sure could have been worse. I was a little tired -- I've been exhausted for the last week and I had hoped the ride would perk me up, but it just made me sleepier. Heh. We stopped for lunch, and I stupidly drank some of the Coke my husband bought, even though Coke + exercise = queasy for me.

I made it home fine, and tomorrow I go back to the same dorky ride I've been doing all weekend: around the back yard on my mountain bike! Very exciting, but I just put Speedplay Frogs on it and I'm practicing. It's good practice, too, because there is a lot of mud (so much that a couple of times I haven't been able to unclip), and a lot of obstacles, including the four-legged kind that don't get out of the way when you say shoo, or even when you nudge them with your front tire.

The funniest obstacle, though, is the tennis ball, which one of the four-legged obstacles likes to stick directly under my front wheel, just in case I didn't get the hint the first seven hundred times.

(I look very silly out there, because I go about 2 miles an hour but I do wear a helmet. There are rocks all over my back yard, and I would feel really stupid if I bashed my head in on a rock in my own back yard.)