Ben and I got up early this morning for a long ride. It started off with a bang, so to speak, when three dogs decided to charge Ben head-on on his bike, causing him to stop abruptly and me to crash into his back wheel. I bounced off of him, then bounced off the curb, then teeter-tottered until I went down on the sidewalk and slid a few feet. I was lucky, only losing the top layer of skin on my right shin. The poor old lady who happened to be with the dogs got a severe tongue-lashing from Ben, afterwhich she denied having any ownership of the dogs. The poor thing probably went home and had a heart-attack. Anyway, Ben and I rode 41.5 miles - my longest ride...and I can tell from the soreness in my shoulders and neck that I am going to have to get accustomed to the longer distances little by little. Crashing at the beginning of the ride probably didn't help with the stiff neck. I finished off the morning with one of my infamous cluster-headaches, but it wore off a few hours later, in time for all-you-can-eat sushi at Sushimasa in Mesquite! Yay! | 