The morning I suggested a 50 mile ride to DH, he said, OK, plan a route.

So I did.

Then he came up with his own idea:

He planned the first 20, which was something we were pretty used to, for an area we have had lots of fun riding many times. Then he planned the other 30 with lots of "bail out" options -- where a simple right turn would take us back toward home within about 5-7 miles.

We made the whole fifty, but the thing we should have remembered was that during those first twenty, we still had thirty to go, cuz the last ten were pretty doggone hard! (we had, in fact, chosen one of the bail outs, then realized how close to making it we were, and toured around the neighborhoods on our way home until we had our fifty!)

Karen in Boise