Citizens of London

Possibly motivated by yesterday's lake photo the Guest Rider today requested another outing. We increased her distance by two miles and added in some rolling terrain. She didn't complain on the uphills and reported achieving 25mph on one of the downs. Roseville is glacial terrain, lots of ups and downs with a lake at the bottom of most of the hills.

So yes, today she did get to see some lakes. Not yet the full ten lake tour but we did pass five named lakes and at least three other places which in places on the planet which lack the abundance of lakes found in Minnesota would most likely be called lakes. We will settle for five, the five named ones (Josephine, Judy, Island, Emily and Owasso for those keeping score).

We have ridden the Tour de Roses a couple of times in the past. It wasn't on our agenda today but we did discover ourselves on part of the route. This sign is at the intersection of Victoria and West Owasso Boulevard. Should I point out that Owasso Boulevard refers to nearby Lake Owasso?We were pretty strong again today. Today the two hour bicycle ride took just a tick over two hours and five minutes.

Rain and heat, you can almost hear the corn growing. Not yet the 4th of July and the local crop has exceeded knee high by at least one body joint.The Citizens of London have joined Rome and Paris on the sidelines of the football tournament and they are NOT going to be happy about it. After an early tournament dominated by goalkeeper howlers (including by the English keeper) the more recent part of the tournament is gradually being overwhelmed by really, really poor officiating. After being severely harmed by this bad officiating the USA was able to survive until finally it was inadequate play that led to them being eliminated but both losers today are going to scream about clearly, clearly wrong officiating decisions which substantially affected the outcome of the games.

Meanwhile, Wimbledon takes their traditional lay day and le Tour de France lurks less than a week away.