Beat the heat

Rather than battle the heat at the Lava Rama , I decided to go with OTB Chad and do a ride from Kamas to Bald Mountain (after ready Sly's race report I made the right choice). The Mirror lake highway is clear to the summit. There is still a lot of snow up there, here's Lilly Lake

but the forest service said it supposed to be open for Memorial Weekend.

The ride itself was painful. The legs felt really heavy and it took about 1 hour before I started to feel okay. I ran out of fluids on the way down so it made the last 30 minutes painful as I could feel my body dehydrating. Sunday I was supposed to do a mountain ride but I knew my legs would be ready for that so I did an easy 2 hour ride around the valley battling the wind.