Another gray day here. I had a ton of work to get done, and couldn't slide out for a ride early. It splattered a bit of rain around lunchtime, and I'd pretty much written off riding today.

Then this afternoon I realized I won't be able to ride tomorrow, so I decided to risk getting rained on, and going to do some hill intervals since I could destroy my legs today, and have all of tomorrow to rest and recover :)

I delivered some mail across town, and since the sky seemed OK, i decided to do my fav city route in reverse on the way to the hill I wanted to do my intervals on.
The ride was great, I was feeling really good, strong, the wind was pretty minimal and the temp and humidity although high, suited my mood perfectly! I got to Leacock, and headed for the bottom. I was being paced by a Mustang with a grinning kid in it as we blasted down @ 72km/h/45mph. Lucky for him there were no radar traps, since i legally can't get a speeding ticket on my bike.

I screeched to a halt at the bottom, and I will take this moment to comment on how absolutely freaking amazing the Campy brakes/pads/wheels work to stop me QUICKLY!! My eyes felt like they were coming out of the sockets, I swear. lol I started up the hill, and was able to keep a great tempo in teh gear I started with, finished strong with a sprint to the stop sign at the top. Kept going to the top end of the street and turned back for the bottom again. This time I decided to not pedal at all, I needed teh recovery time! I still managed to hit 66km/h on that descent. Back up again, this time a couple of people working in their front yards took the time to let me know that i'm crazy going up and down the hill like this. hah
I did the same thing one more time, then rejoined the North Loop and lifted the pace for the trip home, to boost my avg speed for the ride. I was able to hold a pace of 39km/h/24mph for the final 20minutes of riding!

All in all, a great day in the saddle, glad to have got out, the rain started 40mins after I got home.