That cracked road looks exactly like a lot of the pavement on my usual routes! One must pay attention or you'll go down in a hurry. Yikes!

I did much of a usual route of mine - except I did it in reverse. Wow..talk about an eye opener! #1, it made it look nearly like a new route hitting it from a different direction. #2....it was a LOT harder! I thought it was hilly the other direction - sheesh...

I added a few different turns and roads to the beginning and end of my usual Saturday route to make it extra interesting. The really intresting part is that usually this route (in the other direction) gets the tough hill work out of the way in the first 90 minutes. Going in the reverse direction seemed like I had hillwork throughout the whole ride. Sufferfest served up by my own hand...err...feet?

50.5, 3100ft climbing, 14.6mph avg (the top grade in my hillwork sufferfest was 14%)