My husband and I ride together most of the time -- we did a lovely 21 miles this evening, in the 95-ish heat. Our ride was a sort of "can we do it" experiment -- we've been thinking about a 26 mile ride on Saturday with a group that Earl found out about yesterday.

It was a great ride -- he's generally faster than me, but I was spinning along pretty comfortably at around 15mph a lot of the time. We ended up averaging about 11.5 mph by the end of the ride, but cruising through subdivisions, there were plenty of intersections to slow us down.

The last couple of rides we went on were kind of slow, relaxed, and short -- this was fun tonight, and I'm looking forward to Saturday's long straight stretches! (gosh, my first quarter century this year, a month into my new "obsession!")

Karen in Boise