During this morning's ride, a minor calamity befell me. I track my rides with an app called MapMyRide on my iPhone, and I carry it in a cloth neck pouch given to me a couple years ago by my good friend Len Gajda after I had expressed to him a need for a similar item. It's ideal for my purposes—but today, when I got off for a brief break at the park, my typical clumsiness rose to the surface, and when I sat back down on the trike to leave, the dangling pouch caught on a part of the trike, and the cord that loops around my neck ripped free from its attachment on one side of the pouch.
Now I was left with a good cord, still firmly attached to one side of the pouch, but unattached on the other so that I could not wear it. After scratching my head for a moment, I came up with a solution, and took out my keys and used one of them to punch a small hole through the side of the pouch to which I needed to attach the cord. Then, resurrecting one of the knots I had learned in Boy Scouts a mere 50 years ago, I was able to tie it successfully, so that I could wear it for the remainder of the ride. This picture, taken after I got home, shows my inelegant solution.
I was particularly focused on the use of my phone this morning, because when I was up in the night (as I always am), I was haunted by Michael Buble's version of the song You Make Me Feel So Young, and I listened to it on repeat over Spotify for the first half-hour of my ride (down to the park). Here it is:
So, given my equipment problems, and the fact that clouds moved in, threatening the rain that was forecast for this morning, and blocking the bright sunshine with which I had begun my ride (just past 7:00, at 64*), I elected to accept only a single round trip to Marsh Park today, finishing the 10.2 miles in a slow time of 1:20.
The weather did have one nice feature, however. Just after I had turned back from the park, the precipitation moving in from the southwest revealed a faint rainbow on the horizon in that direction.
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