Good ride this morning

This morning I woke up around 5:30 and hit the road to bike around Cayuga Lake, an 88-mile trek.  The weather was great, and because it's a Saturday, I had no cars buzzing by.  However, about 27 miles into the ride, as I coming up on a little town called Aurora, I felt my back wheel give way.  Flat.  Curses!  Fortunately, I had my bag with some stuff in it, so I set about fixing the tire.  It took me a good 30 minutes (helped by losing my valve adapter and looking for that for about 10 - I'm an idiot), which is gawd-awful slow and something I'll have to improve upon.  

I'd soon get my chance to test my time.  I'm not sure how, but maybe a mile later, on the other side of town, I punctured the same tire, different leak.  Blast!  Now I was getting low on patches and wondering if these tires would be able to make it around the lake.  I haven't even bought my spare tubes yet for my new bike (I was still carrying around the spares for my old one).  I patched the second hole and decided to turn around lest I get 40 miles from home and the back tire becomes completely unusable.   Thankfully, I encountered no more problems on the ride back.

All in all, I clocked about 55 miles.  My legs were tired afterwards, but just a few hours later they feel pretty good again.  I think I'm ready for Providence.  It was also nice to deal with a little adversity, no matter how small.  I was reminded how beautiful the Central NY countryside is as well.  One lesson: make sure I get some spare tubes and restock the tire patches before my next ride!  Hope everybody is doing well, thanks for reading!