Nice long bike ride through the bay area

Today some friends and I took a nice long (4+ hours), bike ride through
various parts of the bay area. I have not done much in the way of "long"
stuff this year due to hand and knee injuries so it was nice to get out and
push it a bit. The ride started out with two flat tires by yours truly so I
was not feeling real warm and fuzzy about this. One patch, one tube and
three CO2 cartridges later, life was looking much better. That tire is
going in the trash tonight! We went through parts of Berkeley, Orinda,
Moraga, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, as well as wending our way through Tilden,
Joaquin Miller, Redwood, and Briones parks. 55+ miles and a max speed of
51.8 MPH - oh HELL yeah!

Click below to see the whole shebang.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/email/accept.mb?senderPk.pkValue=71388&unitSystemPkValue=2&episodePk.pkValue=3048844

I had been on a few of the roads but most of the ride was new to me which
was a nice change. At the end of the ride, I was glad it was over but I
still felt like I had something left and could have gone a bit longer.