Had a good ride on Saturday but still having some pain. Began the ride under a Harvest Full Moon taking things slow since 81°F and high humidity greeted me for my 12:09AM start. Put 86 miles on before joining the gang for the 8AM LBS ride and was looking forward to some wheel sucking, free ride cruising. Group of riders have no problem letting me hang on and things were going great at the 1 mile mark just spinning along at 22mph when I unexpectedly had to pull off. Draft lost, easy-peazy riding GONE and 12mph to 15mph winds to deal with resulted in a much, MUCH slower 34 additional miles. The previous Saturday was 111 miles, on Thursday it was 101 miles so I had to complete with 121 miles and thinking the next ride should be 131 miles. Tonight's looking good with 3mph winds and a bit lower temp/humidity in the forecast. Managed a 16.2mph moving average that I must work on to improve and hoping cooler weather will help.
Flat land spinning is great but the wind and higher temps/humidity makes for a slow longer ride.