We’re almost out of weekends before we ride Seattle to Portland, so we thought about doing a big ride today. Unfortunately, we didn’t really plan the ride until late last night, which meant nobody was ready to go early this morning. We rolled out of bed around 10 and finally hit the road around 11:15. That’s pretty late to get started, and we’re in the middle of a heat wave, so we decided to keep the ride under 100 miles.

It’s the final week of the San Diego Fair, so traffic is insane. We decided to avoid the whole area around the fair grounds and cut up through Rancho Sante Fe and then back to Encinitas and up the 101. When we hit Oceanside, the wind was starting to pick up, so we had a bit of a tail wind as we cruised up the trail. Of course, by the time we hit the top and turned around, the wind was really blowing. We took turns pulling through the wind on the way back and we made pretty good time.

We stopped in Oceanside for about 45 minutes and had some lunch at Subway. I sucked down 40 ounces of fruit punch in no time. I think that means I wasn’t drinking enough, but I sure drank a lot after that. We had a good time heading south with a bit of a cross wind coming from the ocean. We blasted across the bottom of Carmel Valley road and then took it easy heading up the 56 bike trail a couple stops. Then we headed home to hook up with Julie and ride with Sam and Ben along the bike trail.