With rain threatening this afternoon, BikeBoy and I broke out the Mothership to ride the 27 miles from home to today's club ride start. Not very many club rides take place in the unfashionable east end of town, but when they do and if the weather looks cooperative, we try to bike to as many as we can. I'm glad we took the tandem b/c if we hadn't, I might still be out there in the rain that finally started in earnest a few miles before we got home. For me, however, stoking on the tandem is much tougher than riding my own bike. Not as comfortable (I'm more upright), and I'm forced to ride BB's pace, which is a lot faster than my own. But it got me home before we got too wet. One of my objectives this year is to get more efficient on the tandem, which means riding it more than 1 or 2x/month. Today's total was 70.56 miles, including about 1/2 the club route we rode with the group before leaving to take a different route home. We almost mowed down a deer (deer season ended yesterday) and made a pit stop at the county airport on the way back to refuel and change into rain gear. Today felt more like fall or early spring than the summery temps we've been having around here.