Bike Riding
Just rode about 50 miles. Ugh. Hilliest ride I've ever taken. There was one hill that would have made Lance Armstrong weep softly.*
There was a cross-wind that occasionally threatened to knock me off my bike. On the last leg, I got my first blow-out on my new bike. On the other hand - how bad can a ride be, when the sun is shining, the temperature is just right, you're toodling along back country roads enjoying the wild flowers and making friends with the spring calves... and at the end of the ride you get to enjoy a parade and a barbecue?
*Oh - and about Lance, he would have been weeping with laughter from watching me try to get up the hill, I'm sure.
I spent most of today riding my bike in a 40 mile figure-8 around and about Strasburg and Intercourse. I think I passed through Bird-in-Hand, too, but we won't talk about that.
