Golly, I hate it when my thumbs mess up and swipe my post away before I can save it. Try again.
Regular loop, but of course that meant mostly headwinds, as usual for me. And those winds brought down 1000's of acorns, walnuts, hazelnuts and chestnuts (ouch) onto me and the tree-shaded roads to make them harder to identify. Been a long time since I saw a chestnut this big - glad I didn't hit it or get hit by it. Lots of late summer grasshoppers to go along with the gnats, mostly brown wooly-worms, and very large hungry mosquitoes on the mountain. But did not see any foraging bears on their little path during the climb - was a bit nervous about having raisins and pineapple chunks with me. Beautiful autumn day for a ride, tall corn, calves venturing farther from Momma cows, scattered leaves barely starting to color up (all except the Kudzu, which is going to take over the world), but legs weren't there today, had to stop once going up Grapefield. Also, sore R foot and toes. And tense about Katy driving up today from Jax w/ her CH cat for me to extract a broken K9 tooth, to interview a 4th year student, and help have a video made about the clinic to help get it out there in the selling marketplace. Looking forward to Saturday's ride.