Warm up -- interesting -- I do pretty much always feel like the first three to five miles are the most challenging of any ride I go on. Once they're behind me, there's a good stretch of "I could go forever" before I get to the tired phase...

The other thing I was considering -- I am NOT a morning person, and we were on the road before I'm usually awake! I decided at one point that maybe I should wait an extra half hour or so to hit the road!

Shiraz --

Places to ride... We do a lot of the greenbelt too. It's a lovely ride! When we don't go there, most of our riding is out south of home -- we live south of the Edwards theater complex in Boise (you know it!) and there's a lot of roadway out there, between all the new subdivisions that have been going in, and if you keep on going, there's the birds of prey thing -- some nice riding out there too. Freshly chip-sealed even!

Karen in Boise