Bike ride beautiful day II

Today was basically a repeat of yesterday in terms of weather: much better than what we deserve for August. I wanted to do a real ride today, so I set out the Route 66 trail, which starts as the Martha Custis Trail and then turns into the W & OD Trail (named after the railroad right of way it runs along, the Washington and Old Dominion). I wanted to do 45 miles, and then decided to go for a metric century, 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles. Here's the route, which ended up being 104.56 km, or 64.97 miles...

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2159768

Here's a map -



You, dear reader, get to see each ride I do, if you read this carefully, so you know this is by far the most I've ridden since I started the blog. I'm a little tired right now, but feel okay. My knees are a little sore. Along the ride, I did not eat right or control my blood sugar well, so I had a "crash" feel there for a while. I did not do it too quickly, either, but at least I did it. Given the need to slow down or stop at all the cross streets, it's difficult to get much speed up along much of the route.

I had an extended stop with two dear and close friends, K & J, in Fall Church, just a little bit off the trail, so I really did a little more than the 65 miles.