Started at 608am. The inaugural ride of my South Mtn, DBG & Wrigley route that I made a couple months ago and was waiting for it to get cooler. This was my first ride of S Mtn ( 2nd in all) of my flat Kona pedals again, since I just put them on the day before. I was having some right ankle pain so thought I would try flats for a while. Overall the route is awesome! I want to tweak the mile 8.2 - 9.2 to get me off Buckeye bc during week this is very high traffic and no shoulder. It seems to have a disconnect in a couple controls not on cue sheet but on the Waypoints at Mystery Castle yet looking at RWGPS cue sheet it all looks ok. Baseline Rd around mile 20 - 23 had lots of school traffic, but they were just sitting in line on the road so it was easy to stay in bike lane and ride by all the cars waiting at each traffic light. There were about 5 cars coming down S Mtn when I was going up and about that same number that passed me, so traffic on S Mtn was not on issue. on this Thursday. There was a young couple I passed that were uploading their bikes by the entrance to S Mtn and I mentioned to them as I rode by that they would catch me and they did shortly after the bike hub. I rode with them for a couple miles then eased off. I saw them at the towers at Gila Lookout as they were just heading down. Did not see them again. After all that traffic on Buckeye Rd and the school cars on Baseline the rest of the route was super quiet and great. The biggest pleasure was the route along the Rio Salado! What an awesome way to cross town E-W and a great view of airport, Camelback Mtn, Zoo, etc. My first time to ride it. Then it was memory lane from Tempe Town Lake all the way back. I had not ridden Tempe Town Lake in years!