The ride started off nice enough but the winds really picked up when we got to the levees. Also at the levees, Bob noticed I didn’t have any water bottles. I remember going to grab them and got something else instead and then I was distracted by the conversation. The only time I’ve forgotten my bottles. Sonny hasn’t been training much and suffered a bit. So after lunch we took it really easy. I said I’d keep the power under 100W. Luckily it wasn’t too hard to do because we had a nice tailwind. We even tried to do a climb at under 100W. The fun didn’t last forever as eventually we came back around to the headwind and it was even more fierce than this morning. Because we were taking it easy though, it wasn’t quite so bad. On the bike path, I was readjusting my grip when I hit a big bump, a tree root probably, and I jammed my left thumb in the hood, almost punching it from the bump.