Sounds like you may just have been tired from the tough ride the day before, Crankin. That sounded like a doozy!

We just did our regular Sunday ride -- 21 miles including urban to/from the bike path, two loops on the path, and Sam's Club for a few items on the way back. It was hot, humid, and sunny. Still, I would rather have this than cold and blustery! But I must say that riding here is not that much fun. There are very few routes, so it gets boring. And the urban part is stressful for me because there are these strange speedbumps they have here that consist of a series of round metal humps (half spheres). There are two rows of them, one row offset from the other, and in order for a bike to go through, you have to angle so that you go in between on a diagonal. DH thinks nothing of them, but I am always so worried about hitting the humps as I'm not as good a bike handler, and my depth perception is not the best. I have managed to go over a hump a couple of times, and it's quite jarring, though I didn't fall like I thought I might. There are at least 6 of these that we have to traverse during this ride, and I dread them.