240 minutes

... is what today was, give or take a few minutes with flat tires today. It's hard to tell the salt crystals from glass shards at times without weaving around the road like a drunk.

What do Highland Cattle wear in the winter? 
This could be a wrong turn.
Dammit,
Back on the road. Such skinny tires for 25's...

When a farmer loads his manure spreader with snow you know it's been a bad winter.
Hayes/Sun-Ringle sponsors a farm?
6 miles from home and the city doesn't look bad at night.

Not quite 50 miles today. The flats ate into my time, and the hills south of Verona damaged my average speed. But if I can do a 50 mile hilly ride ~3 weeks before the H8er 100, I'm feeling good about the training time between now and then.