I don’t know why, but I decided to skip swimming today and do a quick ride along the 56 instead. It was a bit windy, but I figured that would just add to the workout. I wasn’t wrong. There were several times when I actually yelled at the wind, “You’ve got to be kidding me!”. It seemed no matter which way I turned, the wind was in my face. And sometimes it was really howling. Going through the occasional underpass nearly picked me up off my bike it was so strong. At one point I almost stopped to take a picture of some of the trees bowing to the wind, but I didn’t want to mess up my time on that segment.

Despite the wind, I managed to set a bunch of new PRs and make it into my top 3 for almost every segment I rode today. It’s hard to ask your body to do more than that (other than ride more segments). I’m pretty happy. I guess it was worth skipping the swim… this time.