A Day of small Firsts for me

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That downhill speed...incredible! Was it scary?

Not as scary as last year when I went 36mph for the first time. I think I have a little more bike control now, so it is not quite as scary as when I was less sure of my skills.
Oh, and having a helmet mirror really was essential for me at high speed. At those speeds I really don't want to turn my head and take my eyes off the road, and glancing at my mirror every few seconds tells me there is no one behind us for a LONG ways so I can then safely stay slightly to the left of the righthand white line, on the good pavement -instead of flying along on the risky shoulder of the road, with it's cracks, crumbles, glass, roadkill, etc.- I would not want to do that.

The hills must have been ugly. Do you have any idea what grade they were?

No, but since we started and ended at "Point A" which was home, those screamingly fast hills going DOWN all had to be tortuously crawled back UP again!

SouthernBelle- Yes I actually DO believe my butt is tougher than it was last year! I remember the same effect with horseback riding long ago.