Monday morning I dropped the Volvo off at the shop. All sorts of stuff to fix on a 14 year old vehicle with 155K miles. The bright spot was getting to unload my bike on a glorious sunny morning and ride 10 miles north with a hefty tailwind. Toward the end of the Olentangy bike path, I met my buddy Dan to head off wherever the road took us. Dan and I are well matched and so we chatted until we turned south-west. That's when we started drafting into a stiff wind. The Subway in Marysville looked inviting at lunchtime and when we'd eaten, we headed southeast to Plain City leaning right to keep from being blown into oncoming traffic. We could add some speed by exchanging positions every 1/2 mile with the trailer tucked in behind the leader's left hip pocket. We finished past Glacier ridge, Jerome and through Powell back to Worthington Hills with a reasonable 17+mph average for 80 miles.
By Wednesday evening the wind had died down to 5mph; just enough to dry the roads by our 5:15 ride time. It was a beautiful evening for biking and we took advantage of it doing 32 hustling miles at 19+ mph. Some of the Wednesday group below before rolling out.
Today's ride was a more leisurely recovery ride with my very good buddy, Terry. We left mid morning, stopped for lunch in Galena and then returned by mid afternoon completing 45 miles altogether. Week's total was a bit over 150 miles. Not great but will have to do.
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