Sunday was a good day:

How often do you get to ride all day, along the Bay, and through fragrant fennel fields?

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Or bike on smooth, paved, separated paths across two major bridges (the Benicia-Martinez Bridge and the Carquinez Bridge)?

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And with a group of game friends who, when your sketched-out route suddenly changes into dirt trails, forgive you (well, eventually)?

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And with, after the grueling 15% grade section of McEwen in mid-90s heat, the reward of miles and miles of swooping gradual downhill and roadside blackberries?

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Sunday was a good day.

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