Steve, Peggy, and I rolled out of southwest Arlington at 7:00 am this morning to ride the Peachy Keene 200k permanent. It was in chilly, in the upper 50's when we started out, with a stiff northeast wind just kept blowing harder, and became a straight east wind before long, and blew all day.
 
We made pretty decent time to Cleburne, but when we turned east at mile 52, the wind was pretty tough all the way to Itasca, then to Maypearl. It was then mostly a tailwind to Alvarado, and more a crosswind than anything else for most of the remaining miles.  
 
I love the small Johnson County county roads on this route. There are lots of trees overhanging these roads, and today, the smell of honeysuckles was everywhere. It was a great ride with great company, I really enjoyed it. For the first time, I ran 28mm wide tires on my Corsa today. I really like them; I'll do a separate review on them.
 
I ended up with 124.6 miles, and finished the ride in 9:52. Thanks for inviting me along, Steve and Peggy!
 

Bud, it was great riding with you (as always, it was fun). The route was great. A little cyclross action for a very short period of time in Johnson/Hill county, no big deal. I love this route, typical rural route-TONS OF DOGS.  
 
Bud's "balloon" tires are too cool.  
 
Peggy & I followed up Peachy Keene on Saturday, with a 200k on Mother's day-Honey-Do route. A few sprinkles at the start, then dry the rest of the ride. The wind again was a factor. The first 100k was straight into the east/southeast, which made for some slow going, but the return trip (as this is an out & back route) ,made for much easier going.  
 
The previous rough chip seal on this route is starting to get worn down, & actually the route road wise, is turning into one of the better 200k routes within the N/E metro-plex area...a lot of rollers, very few  flat areas.

Quote from aikigreg on May 10^th, 2010, 9:57am:

 
 
It's all mental . The 1,000k will have a lot of ups/downs.

I may be in for the 400 or 600k if my knee is not better soon . I'm taking a few weeks off to rest the knee. But that would mean that I would be riding the 1000k without even having done a 400k or 600k this year. I guess its that way we do things jumping into the deep in of the pool with out being able to swim.
                                      Peggy