Happy Cinco de Mayo, Derby Day, hope that the Fourth was with you on Star Wars Day and hope you got to see the opening TT of the Giro d'Italia in Jerusalem! Yes, the one in Israel - the first time a grand tour has ever started outside of Europe. To celebrate all of the above, I did my own version. In Jerusalem they did 9.7 km with about 170 m of climbing on the gently rolling course in the old city. I did about 10 km with about 5 m of climbing over the flat river bottoms of Zeandale. Set substantial PRs on the outbound leg even though I was concentrating on consistency rather than speed. The SW breeze might have helped some. I worked harder than I thought outbound too. I rested at the old stone farm buildings on the Wabaunsee county line, but struggled against the headwind on that bit of road angled SW. Rested a bit again in Zeandale and was good for a straight run all the way back to the park with a gravel biking wheelsucker I picked up :-) That's where I'd left the car on its maiden bike-carrying voyage. Both the Orca and the Slice fit in the back just fine, though I might want to cover the dirty tires to prevent marking up the interior. Took the car on a fun jaunt of its own out Deep Creek road. Its climbs like a goat and is incredibly stable on twisty old county roads. Wore the Cannondale Garmin jersey, of course, with PI shorts. It was about 83 °F with aforementioned SW breezes, so we're definitely back to summer kit.