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You can't really stretch when foremost on the agenda seems to be just trying to get back to a fitness level that allows the "usual" two hour ride.

No stretch today.

Instead I had a Guest Rider. We pretty much skipped the lakes today although even she would admit that we did see two. It's pretty hard to go anywhere in this town without riding past a lake or two.

Instead we took the opportunity to check on light rail construction and to peaceably assemble to petition our government.

That's one of our first amendment rights. It appears that today we weren't the only ones exercising that right although if the truth is told that gaggle of other citizens higher up on the stairs looked to be more likely a tour group.

We paused before leaving that part of town to get a photo from below the hill of the Cathedral which today was standing against an outstanding blue sky.

The wind today was almost dead out of the southeast. You can see it whipping the flag behind the GRider in this photo.

She had mentioned a couple of times in the 8 and a half miles ridden up to this point that there was more wind then she expected. We had been riding east mostly, with some southeast and a dash or two of south.

At the point where that photo was taken (across from the University Club at the top of Ramsey Hill) we turned to travel west on Summit.

At the end of Summit we turned and off through the neighborhood along the River Road, traveling north towards the place where we live.

Southeast wind, last 14 miles ridden almost entirely west and north.

It was a beautiful day for a bicycle ride.