Logged my first ride on Strava today, just a quick ride to, around and back from a local park with t'other half. Bonus was the fact for the first time since we started riding in early June his aching legs decided when we should head back
.
According to Strava I averaged 6.7 mph along the 3.8 mile route, although I didn't start recording right outside my door so, the total distance is probably a bit over 4 miles. Not our longest ride to date (that's just over 5 miles, done on Thursday) but it's the third ride in four days, which is a record for us, and hopefully the start of more regular rides out.
Even though it's a drop in the ocean compared to the distances some of you are putting in, I'm very impressed with it. Doubly so given that the first time I rode the bike I only managed to get about half a mile before feeling ready to fall over and die. Since then we've slowly built up both the distance and frequency of our rides, and I'm going to keep going around the local streets and parks for the next few days, but have planned out a rough route for an eight mile ride up the Medlock Valley, which will probably end up around the 10 mile mark, what with our abilities to find random detours, wrong turns and complete dead ends.
I felt tired when I got back. I was expecting worse weather this evening but it is very nice. I don't think the wind is blowing at all now. 
The weather people have been really struggling with wind direction here the past month or so, it seems like it to me anyway. I hope the airplane pilots don't rely on the same people. 
