I feel so very fortunate reading posts from those of you who live north. We enjoyed another upper 60s-70-degree day yesterday, and I rode 40 miles on my road bike for the first time in over a year (I think). I've done that distance on my MTB a couple of times in the past year but am not sure about the roadie since I haven't been tracking my miles until this year when I decided to get back to tracking on bikerides.com.

It was windy but nice, and I enjoyed wearing my new high-viz quick-dry top I picked up at Walmart for a cool $8.97. It's Danskin brand. Normally I don't shop at Walmart for athletic wear, but it was an impulse buy since I had no long-sleeve high-viz stuff and wanted to make sure drivers could see me while riding around here. Although the vast majority of this ride was on the road, we rode a short stretch on the packed sand of the Padre Island National Seashore -- beach bikes would be really fun here!

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