long slow miles

rode 3:15 today, 53 miles or so, on my own. Kind of nice to ride solo for the first time in a while. It was a lovely fall day out--sunny but in the 50s. Rode over to Honeoye Falls and back, with a fair bit of embellishment. saw a bounding white-tail deer and a monarch butterfly out in the sunshine. On the ride I did some work on high cadence, both generally and with some one-legged drills. Worked on my right ankle/foot especially, as it has a tendency to go up/down and not much else.