I wound up blowing off riding last night - the storm wound up missing us, but it was just too hot and too iffy to get excited about such a long drive to where the club meets. So I just did a fairly easy three around the fitness trail after my aerobics class again this morning.

Reminded me again why I hate that trail. It's got just enough elevation change that the rises are work, but they're so small that I never adjust my posture, and wind up really overworking my quads.

The nice thing about it (as long as you don't have a garden in the area ) is the deer. The trail is on the hospital campus, which is fairly large with a lot of green space, and there's a golf course just a couple of blocks away, so there are lots of deer and they're very used to humans. This morning there was a woman sitting out in a wheelchair in front of the nursing home right next to the trail, and a big doe was RIGHT next to her. The doe was there for at least 10 minutes, when I came around the second time. Close by in the woods, lying down, there was a small buck in velvet (I'm guessing her yearling son) and a spotted fawn.