Yesterday we did a 20 mile "mystery" ride around town. Hit a few streets I've never been on. Despite the locality of the ride, it had 1,000 feet of climbing. There was a sidewalk sale in Concord center, so we stopped at the cheese shop on the way home, and walked through the booths. Had to leave pretty quickly, so the cheese wouldn't melt in DH's jersey pocket.
Today we finally did our "Fruit Loop" ride to Kimball's Fruit Farm in Pepperell, MA, on the border of Hollis, NH.Our friend changed the end of the ride, so we don't do some brutal hills at the end, but the ride is now longer... 51 miles instead of 47. Both DH and I had lower back issues (not from cycling), but we enjoyed the day. The climb up to the farm has 6 hills on one street. The weather was gorgeous, though I was scared it would rain, and we did have a couple of sprinkles on the way home. We ate our lunches on top of a hill by the farm, with a beautiful view of Mt. Wachusett.
I did not really like the new ending to the ride and would have rather done the hills. There were a couple of funky intersections that I would not take a group on and the landscape was not that gorgeous. I'm just spoiled!
Got home, took an ice bath, and had some good home made Mexican food for dinner.