Bad ride. Sorry if it turns into a novel.
I started out wanting to do 9-12 miles, nothing too difficult as I haven't been on the bike in a little over a week and it's STICKY outside. I also wanted to hit some hills (or what passes for hills around here. Practice, right?).
.2 miles from my apartment, I stopped at a stop sign, then went to make a turn. My right foot slipped off the pedal before I could get clipped in and hit the front wheel...and I very nearly embarrassed myself. (Lucky I wasn't clipped in!)
I did part of my loop, then circled back to do my nemesis hill. It's not very steep at all, just long. I went to shift into my tiny chainring, so I could try this spinning thing that I keep hearing about. I hear this horrible grinding noise. I hop off, and it turns out my front derailleur needs to be adjusted. I somehow manage to get back into the middle ring before setting off again. (Gymnastics on my part and the bike's!).
All in all, by the end of the loop, my right leg was shaking terribly. (That's my stress reaction, and it's really annoying on the bike.) I think it's a combination of being tired, not enough sugar on board, the heat and the humidity. I walked my bike back to my apartment from that intersection, still shaky.
Good news: I made it up that hill with fewer problems than expected, even having had to stop in the middle. I got up the shorter, steeper hill too. And I'm quite proud of myself for managing to execute a turn that I don't like making at speed--the street I turn onto is rather narrow and there's a manhole cover in the middle...made doubly fun today by my having to dodge a piece of road debris. It puts me at an angle I don't like. I didn't crash or anything. Yay!

So, three-ish miles in total. Hopefully your rides were more fun.
I think I'm going to have a tepid shower and lie down.