Forecast for next few days is evening rain; peeps are working remotely and have all kinds of flexibility, so let's do an early morning ride! Other than not having to disassemble a tent; or a huge crowd of people; or a "breakfast" town 10 or 20 miles along the ride, it was juuuust like an Iowa morning in July. REALLY Humid, warm, windless. Oh and with some surprisingly tired legs, like, say, Day 5. Truthfully, felt terrible at first, until the big downhill at 7.5 miles and then was ok for awhile. Legs for sure did not want to do this much climbing -- planner said 1500 feet and Garmin came back with 1700, but RWPGS insists it's 2K. Shrug. Last 5 or 6 miles were a LOT harder than they shoulda been with the legs were clearly feeling the effects of 44 miles and a bunch of climbing 48 hrs ago. Still, ended up with a faster avg time than expected (maybe it's a lie?). On the other hand, cardio seems back to "normal" for this time of year, so there's that. Old man still much prefers his climbing in short intense bursts instead of long, grinding ascents. (see mile 25 to the end and mile 5 to 7.) Takes a long time to train naturally fast twitch body for sustained higher effort ...