Since about 5 miles of this route is on pavement, it's best ridden on a hard tail bike ... like we used to do all the time, before we had the full-squish rigs. Since two of us rode 30 roadie miles yesterday and all three of us are aiming to ride Little Bennett tomorrow, we agreed to take it easy, ride a so-called "casual" pace. Which we *mostly* did. There's not even a thousand feet of climbing on this route, so it's not strenuous. But with a lovely day, low humidity and temps comfortably in the mid- to upper 70s, there was no way we could miss out on a ride. Especially with much cooler weather coming Sunday and into next week. Legs were a little tired at the start but soon relaxed and felt fine. There wasn't much of a cardio workout; that will happen tomorrow. Trying to ride 3 days in a row is about getting the body used to being on a bike on successive days. It's coming ... w/Mark, Dan