What a difference a week makes.  Last weekend I was having the worst ride of my life with a little cold and rain heaped on top of that.  One week later and we are riding in sunny 70 degree weather.  It was wonderful and I felt great.  No cramping and this ride was a seriouse hill training ride.  My friend Richard has a real cool GPS (Garmin Forerunner 305) slash, heart monitor, slash will do your taxes while you ride or run.  Okay I made the last one up but it does do a lot of cool stuff.  One of which was to track our ride with GPS and the elevation.  You can see from the image below just how much hill riding we did.  No level ground there.  The only bad thing on this ride was I got two flat tires.  What the heck.  Maybe one flat tire on a ride but two?  I always cary a spare tube as I hate trying to patch tires on a ride.  So when I got the second flat I was able to bum a tube off Tim.  Then I kept my fingers crossed  the rest of the ride home as we were out of tubes at that point.  Every big bump I was praying please don’t pop.  We made it home just fine with a small sun burn.  I am not complaining.  I love the sun burn.  ;)

If you have free google earth you can check out the route we took by downloading our route file.