Put on my bike gear this morning, so at breakfast DH asks what route I'm thinking of doing ... and decides to join me. We did the 20-mile route around the smaller resevoir. He was really sweet and patient, waited for me on hilltops when I gave up and walked, stayed behind me the rest of the ride. I rode two more hills than last time. Instead of walking the rest when my HR passed 170, I stood for a bit, sipped some water, then got back on when my HR had dropped. It worked. I made it up! Yay! Next time I'll have to try that on the four hills I did wind up walking.

At one such break, DH recalled when it was we'd ridden that route together last. Had to be between 1980 and 82. Summer 83 I was enormously pregnant. 1980 was when this guy A.T. took over as boss at the lab where DH was working, and DH remembered us stopping at that same spot (last hilltop before the long downhill) and seeing AT ride by. So ... 25 years ago. Back then the bike I had weighed at least twice what RubySlipperz does and had half her gears, but hey, I was 25 years younger.

Now it's shower time, then lunch, then out to buy some plants together with the upstairs neighbor. Maybe also some reading and quilting tonight. Gotta have a students' thesis draft read when she gets back from vacation, another student's paper draft read by Monday. Also gotta have UK Elephant's messenger bag done for her birthday next month.