So....
A certain someone from this forum ("cough, cough...MDHillSlug...cough, cough") overslept and we couldn't do our ride through Rock Creek Park together this a.m., departing with the N2 crew. Since DH had a slow leak in his back tire, and Mike, the owner of the LBS had put it out on the shop's listserv that he was doing an easy ride at 9:30 and all were invited to join him, the stars aligned for a ready excuse to bail on the N2 and have DH properly fix his leaking tire and then join Mike at the shop. So we did. Only Mike wasn't ready to go. "What do you want? I've got 2 young kids and things happen!" So by 10 or so, we set out. We did a loop through the park and out to Potomac - where on a beautiful Spring morning, the class of car that nearly swipes you is soooo much fancier....the Ferraris, the Caddy's, the I-don't-even-know-what-they-are-but-they-probably-cost-more-than-my-first-townhouse! I knew most of the roads for the second part of the ride, and I was rapidly running out of steam (I also wanted to conserve what little steam I had, as I was supposed to go for a 2.5 mile training run/jog with a friend of mine in the early afternoon), and each turn that I THOUGHT Mike would take to lead us back to the barn, he took the opposite. Oh, and DH forgot his water bottles in the truck, so I gave him one of mine, so I was rationing water. So the ride was MUCH longer than I really was hoping for - 39 miles at 16 mph - and by the time we got back to the shop, I was sooooo spent (my longest ride since perhaps November), I called up my friend Terry and postponed our run until tomorrow morning (which means no shop ride for me).