Usually I see bunnies. Today I saw a coyote. 6 miles on my bike in the heat but it was fun and I remembered sunscreen and stopped in the shade for water twice when I needed. Boom. Health.

It has been warm and the sky is a funny color with Forest Fire smoke. The smoke is reflecting some of the heat back up in the sky so it is a little less hot than it would have been. There is an air quality alert on so I did not push it. I stayed at a low cruise. My average heart rate was under 70%. Dogging it I was. I was pretty tired after Saturday because I should have taken on more fuel. I was ravenous when I got home. Today I just wanted to put some time and distance in. I needed to get my legs moving. It was an easy ride. I made good time and averaged just under 26 kph. That was with a head wind for half the loop. This is still the first week in August and I already have 220 ish done. The granfondo is in a few weeks. I will taper down the week before. Between then and now I have to do at least one more epic ride. I hope the smoke clears up soon.

Speed powered by sads

By the time I got back on my bike after those pictures, my bike seat was hot enough to crisp my cooch

Goal was to finish this ride before my watch died and I succeeded. Since it's so hot this was truly a just do something anything, make an effort, type thing. Afterwards I did a little with my weights and now it's reading time

Maybe having a bike with gears would make this easier 👀 got blown by by people who were pumping their legs the same speed or slower. Which makes sense but I haven't been around other bikes while riding before lmao

Haven't ridden my bike in two years. But I wanted to be active and move my body and bike riding around the trails in the new area sounded fun. AND IT WAS!!!!! Sure, I was so focused on fun that I forgot I had to ride back and ended up doing six miles and now my joints are mad at me but holy shit y'all. So fun.