45th ride - 6/23/15

This morning, I had to forgo my plans to ride early, as my friend Tom Brown invited me to go for an early hike with him at the Eddy Discovery Center, west of Chelsea. The picture here shows me gazing reflectively out over the lake, just before we began.

But after we got back from that, I went out and did my longest ride to date, going out to Baker Rd. (Dexter), for a 19.2-mile ride, in 2 hours and 10 minutes.

I figured today would be a good time to try it. I was going to do that ride on Sunday, but had my tire trouble when the left front one blew, but after I took it to Jack's Bicycle in Dearborn yesterday for repair, when they changed the alignment slightly and put new tires on it (all at no cost to me), I figured I should be in pretty good shape today. And I can get there completely off-road, as there is a long sidewalk that runs along the south side of Jackson Rd. all the way out there. It's not the most scenic ride imaginable, but I'm indescribably glad to be able to do it!