2018 mileage: 2611.2
The big cool down continues! It's hard to believe that so recently, I was still riding in shorts and in temperatures exceeding 80°! Just on Sunday, it was 82* when I finished. But this morning, when I began a few minutes before 9:00, it was 41°, and I was exceedingly glad for my gloves, and felt that my apparel of a hoodie over a t-shirt was nearly insufficient.
I'm a bit embarrassed to only be reaching my 100th outdoor ride of the year so deep into 2018 ... this is 285th day of the year. Oh well!
I'm a bit embarrassed to only be reaching my 100th outdoor ride of the year so deep into 2018 ... this is 285th day of the year. Oh well!
At any rate, I allowed myself another lazy day. Like on Wednesday, I only rode a single round trip to Marsh Park, but today only supplemented it with two additional loops—on Interfirst Dr., and then on WIlson Rd./Bicentennial Pkwy. This gave me a ride of 12.6 miles, covered in 1:30. This allowed me to hit another mileage milestone.
A calamity of the day was my water bottle. As the cage for it sits along the main horizontal "boom" of the bike, it all too easily slides out—the is no gravity to assist holding it on place as with the diagonally mounted cage on my former road bike. This is the 8th or 9th one I've lost in the three and a half years I've been triking. The bottle has slid out countless additional times, but I usually hear and am able to retrieve it. But not today—I never knew it was gone until about a mile left in the ride. Later I took the car and drove back, looking as carefully for it as I could, but my search was fruitless.
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