Good morning ride, sleepy afternoon

The ride this morning was just fine. The humidity was high, but luckily it stayed overcast for the duration of my ride which helped to keep the heat under control. I managed 35 miles at an average speed of 16.6.

Last week I bought a new cycling computer from a co-worker. He was upgrading his so I bought his Garmin Edge 305 from him. This is kind of cool because it is a GPS device which lets me now track not only speed and distance, but also things like elevation, and it stores the course which can be downloaded to my computer. It also has a built in heart rate monitor. All in all, a really cool device. I haven’t begun to really even make use of all the functions it has. Sometimes these things take a little time to learn.

I didn’t really see too much of note today. The ride was very uneventful, and sometimes that is just perfect. I think the only other cyclist I saw was Marcella leaving the development as I entered. She was heading out for her ride. We stopped and touched base for a minute along the side of the road and then I continued on home.

At the house, after she had also returned from her ride, we watched today’s stage of the Tour. It was a pretty exciting stage with lots of attacks by the leaders against each other on the final climb. The yellow jersey did change hands, and is now being worn by Frank Schleck of Team CSC-Saxo Bank. I think this is probably a good move by Cadel Evans. Now his team won’t have to control the race for a few days, but he’s still close enough that he’s got a good chance of taking it back in the final climbing stages and in the time trial which is the penultimate stage.

We ran a few errands after lunchtime, and then I fell asleep on the couch for a while. It’s been a good day, but once again it is gone all too fast.