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What a ride! First warm day of the season, so I did 60 miles. In the first day of 72-85° heat. Against a 25-35 MPH wind. Without stopping once. Despite the closure of Lowell Road in Concord after last week's rains washed out a culvert. Despite getting caught up in the road closures around the Boston Marathon. Despite getting caught up in the road closures around the Patriots Day parade in Concord, Lexington, and Arlington. And despite the goddamned birds in Chelmsford, at the hardest point in the ride, whose call sounds remarkably like, "You're beat! You're beat-beat! You're beat! You're beat-beat!"