Women's day out.

Yesterday I got an invite from a female riding buddy, which she'd sent to me and one of our male friends. He declined, I accepted, and when I showed up this morning there was a third woman there, someone pretty strong whom I'd hardly ridden with this summer.

I was a little intimidated, but it turns out those two had been thrashed on the club hammer-fest yesterday, and since my legs were fresh, I was safe Actually, by the end of the ride, I was pulling them up the hills, which made me feel pretty good (even though I knew we weren't starting from even).

We all stuck together and had a really good day. The weather couldn't have been better, the woodlands and farms are at high summer despite the mild temperatures, even the pollen and the fresh chipseal weren't too awful.

56 miles, 16.1 avs, 2940 feet of climbing.