Yes, today's average speed was another season high for me (see the performance chart). I honestly didn't expect it today, because it was only the second ride in eight days, and it seemed that it would be enough to slow me down. I guess not.

The weather this weekend was unbearable: Friday through Monday, the humidity was between 85% and 100%, with the temperatures in the 70's and 80's (Farenheit). I couldn't ride... in fact, it was hard to even breathe.

Thankfully, the humidity blew away last night, and today was cool and dry (50%). It's supposed to stay like this all week. Now I can get serious again, and hopefully get three trips by the end of the weekend.

(I'm not really as blasé about the new record as I may sound... that was just a bit of sarcasm. I'm actually quite pleased with it.)

As September 8 approaches, I can feel myself developing an attitude. I have something to prove, to everybody around me but especially to myself. That date marks the second anniversary of my big accident. I can still feel a little bit of paranoia in me, and in my family, about the intersection I was passing through and the date I was doing it... it's totally irrational, but that's what paranoia is!

I'm planning a long ride that day, at least 40 miles, and I'm going through the Evil Intersection twice (once each way). I've been through there a few times this year, so it's really not a very big deal, but not on "that date".

It's also the day before my twenty-eighth birthday.