Yesterday I rode 66 miles of the Cheaha Challenge. I was wiped out when the ride was over, but I am getting stronger after my two-month hiatus, and my neck does not hurt unless I am sitting down in front of a computer. So, the weekends are nice, and then I have to go back to work and suffer.

The ride is organized very well, but I'm not sure that treating a century as a race and logging in participant finish times promotes group cycling safety. Centuries bring the squirrelly riders out from the woodwork and these people feel like they should jeopardize everyone else's safety to save 10 seconds off their time, which in the end doesn't mean a hill of beans. Social ineptitude is immediately evident with cyclists.

The weather was perfect, though, and it was nice to have a change of scenery and best of all, RIDE MY BIKE!