Did a 47 mile ride for a local Cancer Center. Was way hilly and challenging, and my longest ride of the season by about 15 miles (and all those hills to boot.... the last longish ride was 32 flat paved road). I should have sacked up and did the metric century, but I wasn't sure I could make it. I probably could have, but it would have been close. My thighs were screaming at the end! Was goooorgeous weather, cool verging on warm in the early afternoon, and past some really stellar scenery.

Nanci, glad I'm not the only one that refers to holsteins as 'ladies'. Every time I'd ride past a farm I'd call out, "Helloooooo ladies!" Referring to them as ladies is a habit I picked up from a friend of mine when we worked on a dairy farm. They are ladies, and they should be treated as such!