Guess what crossed the road?

So any guesses?
After a week off the bike due to some hellish spring weather I finally got a ride in today.

Sun
61 degrees
Wind NE 10-15
Three Bridges route, 35 miles


On the way out I happened to just in time catch something out of the corner of my eye. Some sort of animal was crossing the road. Before I knew it I had to hit my brakes pretty hard to avoid smacking the stupid thing. It was an opossum. Those things have to be the dumbest animal out there. It never looked at me and never hurried...just kept going in his own little world. And man...that bare rat-like tail is gross. I'm glad I didn't take the thing out, not because there would be one less opossum in the world but because it would have messed up my bike!


On the path out there was also a funny moment when this little girl, no more than 5-6 years old, who was riding a little tiny bike out there with her mom said to me, "Nice bike." The little kid said that! Kinda cool.


I decided that despite the fact that I would be going into the NE wind on the way back that I would make the loop rather than take the same path home. This means some climbing into the wind, including the hill at the Franklin Correctional Center, where, as usual, I hummed "I'm Free" by the Who as I rode past the barbed-wire fences.


No issues on this ride, but it is clear that I am way out of shape for this time of year and far behind where I was last season at this time. Baby steps.


Happy Memorial Day weekend and thanks to all who have served our great country. No riding planned for me until Tuesday of next week.

Season Miles: 778