61 miles, 2200' of elevation gain, 80 degrees and a tornado watch.
There are days that you just get lucky with the weather. The original forecast was for us to wake up to rain, heavy at times with increasing winds, hail and a tornado watch. We woke up to mostly clear skies as the rain came and went during the night and the thunderstorms that never looked very far, never hit us and the tornado watch was lifted. So we did the entire ride dry with some increasing winds but they were manageable.
The ride itself was on mainly quiet country roads with rolling terrain. The dogs are another matter as Mississippi residents are no better about restricting their dogs than Louisiana so you develop strategies. I rode with just one other person in single file with at least a 5 bike length gap so that if a dog came for us we wouldn't crash into each other. Not conducive to conversation but the quieter we were, the less the dogs discovered our presence. This is good.
We did work around another hour delay working out an alternate route due to a bridge being out. I was ready to wade across but thought twice when I was reminded that there are snakes and alligators in the south.
Sounds like a somewhat frustrating day - glad the weather held off though, those southern storms can be doozies.
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