1. I avoided texting Mac to tell him I wasn’t going to meet him at 6 a.m. I would have loved to have gone back to bed.
2. I made it up Rock Riffle, despite very tired legs from three days of workouts/rides, and copious amounts of morning phlem blocking the airways. We both sounded like a freight train of asthmatic smokers pushing up that climb.

Like yesterday, we met at Athens Bicycle, climbed Rock Riffle, and turned right onto Longview Heights. This morning we stayed on Longview, and took Mulligan down to Richland, then back to the car via a trip through campus and a roll down Court Street. About 7.5 miles in 45 minutes, but our major success was making it out in the early cold two mornings in a row. Here is the route