Monday Ride

Another beautiful fall day in South-Central Indiana (and indoor training starts tomorrow evening), so I decided to make time for a ride after the noon Workshop colloquium (a terrific presentation by Russian economist Leonid Polischuk on the rise and relative effectiveness of homeowners associations in two Russian cities). That was a good decision. No so good was my decision to try riding up Mt. Gilead Rd. toward Lake Lemon. With legs still aching from the longish ride on Saturday on the flats northwest of Indy, there was no way I was going to be able to climb up one side, turn around, and climb back up the other side on the way home. If I had tried, I probably would have ended up here: