Busy day for the TE-DC gang, I see.

I drove out to Williamsport, MD, to cruise the C&O Canal towpath. It. was. beauuuuuutiful. Rode 30 miles from Williamsport to the top of Big Pool (at Fort Frederick State Park) and back to Williamsport, then decided that I had more in me so I headed a few miles downstream of Williamsport and back up to make it a total 35 mile ride. Managed to maintain an average of just over 13mph, in spite of dodging other cyclists (lots of families with little kids on bikes, a few folks with panniers who looked like they were riding the whole 184.5 mile towpath), pedestrians, and dogs (leashed and unleashed). Probably only 100 feet of total elevation (if that), but I did have the excitement of taking the bike up to 20mph down a very gravelly slope at a spot where the canal used to drop through four locks in a row. I know that's not fast to some of you speed-demons out there, but the idea of wiping out on a gravel trail had me on pins'n'needles. Fun, though

Could the weather stay like this all summer, please, pretty please???