Just weighed myself at the gym this morning and I was at 162lbs with gym clothes and shoes on. I don't know if I ever that light even when I was running. I don't need to lose anymore weight, in fact, the last couple of rides and days I have felt pretty fatigued and weak. That might have something to do with all the gym workouts, bike riding and painting and stuff I have been doing in preparation for relatives visiting this week. If something is to suffer, it is usually my sleep, so I will probably take off a couple days. Saturday, I did a 24mile in town ride (Silver Lake Loop) followed by a 20mile group ride (Vinings Loop). I felt good on the first ride but hit the wall about 10miles into the second ride. It was hot and humid as it has been for the last two weeks, 90's and high humidity. I guess I did not hydrate early or as much as I needed. At lunch after the rides I felt light headed and exhausted. It took two days to recover from that one, but I think and hope lesson learned. I rode at Stone Mountain on Tuesday and did 20 hilly miles. Felt decent for this ride but I wound up passing some young experienced cyclist on the flats who was determined to catch and pass me and I was determined that he wouldn't. Anyway, youth typically wins in the end as it did here, on one of the steeper climbs at the end but I made him work really hard and I suffered because of it. All I can say is, it's a cycling thing.

Rode the Silver Lake group ride last night and although not quite as fast as it has been the two previous weeks, it was still plenty fast. There had to have been 60+ on the ride. I did a 5mile pre-ride so I wound up with almost 30miles total. I was pretty much spent after this ride.

Just got the itinerary for the Tour trip and it looks very exciting. Once I convert all the meters and kilometers to feet and miles I will give you the run down. I do know that one of the rides/climbs I will be riding is the Col du Tourmalet which is a very famous TDF climb with a lot of history. It's 18 kilometers from the base which based on my calculations is 11.16miles of climbing at an average grade of 6% (Ugh!!).