Well…as you know, I have been doing 30 miles a day on the bike for the past 9 days but with the rides today, that is enough…I can’t remember tougher rides that these today and my legs, neck, and shoulders are screaming in pain that just continues to get worse as every day goes by…I guess an old body just can’t take the abuse. It was torture out there today with the wind blowing almost 20 mph but I survived the first one okay…the second one, not so much…I should have known that it was going to be bad when I was hobbling just to get to the bike in here and had trouble carrying it up the stairs…by the time I got out a half mile I was struggling so badly that I almost turned around but, because I am an idiot, I kept on and pushed through til I got back here. The way I feel right now, I will need an off day tomorrow to try to heal up some and I am trying to tamp down the guilt by reminding myself that I’ve done enough miles in the past 9 days to carry me to the end of the month…but, I would like to get to the goal of 500 miles for a month for the first time so that means more 30′s to make that happen…yeah, I know…I’m an idiot…