After almost a week of Ian refusing to leave, he took the hint and went off to bother New England. Temps in the 70s (shirt sleeves!!) and sunny, since am downtown, let's do a DC ride. Pretty close to zero climbing of note, but plenty of miles after not so much of those lately. A close inspection of the GPS track will reveal this is a loop (albeit an extremely skinny one in places) EXCEPT for 29.5 to 34.5, and again at 36.2, both of which do in fact retrace an earlier path. While this does violate the OG Prime Directive (NO OUT AND BACKS) in this case it was also nearly dark after 30 miles or so and dork rider did not bring a critical part of the light equipment (um, the mount). While Dork certainly could have found a route farther west to avoid the repeat (he knows of one at 32.2), did we mention it was almost dark? Especially with prescription sunglasses? (Took those off and LOOK! It's lighter! But now there are fewer details, like you know, holes in the road. ) Legs felt great even after sooo many days of not riding except TBTDM so of course the right call is to overdo it in the beginning and so the legs were getting tired at about 30. Surprisingly, no issues with contact points even with 2.5 hours of moving time and only 10 minutes of stoppage.