Work’s keeping me off this bike this week, so today’s 32.4 mile ride was the last before I start Bicycle Virginia. A large group started from Barber Park and then quickly split as the pace kept rising. I fell in with a few folks who rolled along at a comfortable-but-not-too-slow speed and occasionally regrouped along the route. A front rolled in and kept temps cool and winds brisk – it didn’t feel like mid June, that’s for sure.