After the storm last weekend, it's been gorgeous all week and today was no different. Shorts and short sleeves weather. Last week of deadlines and I just managed to get an ambitious amount of work done this morning. Either way, I was going to do a lunch ride. I had to stretch the legs and I certainly wasn't going to miss the great weather. One benefit of waiting so long was all the storm damage had been cleared. Some of the gravel had been smoothed by the rains with ruts getting filled in while there were also some new ones too. Sawyer Camp Trail was a little busy but everywhere else it was pretty dead. I was planning on keeping the ride chill but before getting to Starbird, I had to sprint passed some merging traffic so I still managed to do a 1000+W effort.