Bait and Switch

Brian called (great motivation and for that I am grateful) and said he was going for a 15 mile ride "the snake" and wanted to know if i was going. My achilles has been feeling 100% in normal use so I said ok. We met at the 4.4 mile point - it took him 4 minutes less than me to get there but my route was into the wind. We rode to the point which turned into the half way mark and Brian goes, "wanna ride over pony mountain?" being the macho man that i am, i said ok. we got about 15 miles in and my achilles was starting to hurt. then i still had 15 more to go. since i left from my house and brian left from the shop so i got to ride and extra 4 miles home. just a tic under 30 miles and and avg of 18.6 miles and hour.