Wow.
Gorgeous day in MD. Sunny (but breezy) and 70! Ummm...is this January?? Somebody tell my daffodils and the cherry trees. I had a trio of flickers working the yard over for bugs that don't know it's winter this a.m. I broke a sweat taking down the Christmas lights!
So...DH and I had to go out. Just wouldn't be right, since this weather is so wrong. We were riding in shorts! We had visions of doing our "French Countryside" loop, but the thought of some of those hills on our tired, way out-of-shape legs did not seem appealing. So we did "108 and back", a flat route up New Hampshire Ave, with a detour down Tucker Lane for some hill work. Tucker Lane is a series of short, sickly steep rollers and I questioned which was tougher - long steady hills of the French Countryside route, or the short steep killers of this one. I didn't win the argument. Anyway, Tucker Lane is very tree covered, so the roads were still wet. We both took it very easy on that road.
All told: 20 miles bit off my goal of 2500 for '07 in 1:24:00, which is, what? 14.3 mph avg.
Oh...and later in the day...we stopped in to visit my bike-commute partner. His knee is fine, had surgery to repair his quadricep! He tore the tendon holding it to the knee clean through! Ouch! He's out for about 12 weeks for healing and rehab.