Week 13 - Monday

Paul and I met for a ride this evening. The forecast called for a 90% chance of rain, so it seemed maybe sorta likely we were going to get wet. We headed out from my place for the Joplin route. The wind was blowing out of the southeast, which meant we'd have it at our backs for the first half of the ride, but working against us on the way home. My legs felt pretty gassed from the prior two days, but we were going to keep the ride fairly short.

We made good time with the push as we headed north on Ten Mile. As we turned west on Chinden, we slowed a little as the wind hit us from the left side. However, we reached our 10 mile turnaround in no time.

We had a quick drink and started back toward Meridian. The wind was now hitting us on the right side. We reached Chinden again with about 6 miles to go and it began to rain as promised. As we turned south on Ten Mile, we had a full on head wind and the rain to boot. This slowed us down quite a bit, but otherwise didn't really bother us.

We reached my house again in 1 hour, 11 minutes with an average pace of 17.3 mph.