53rd ride - 7/2/2015

After subjecting myself to watching a dispiriting Tigers' loss this afternoon, I went out and rode late afternoon today. (They were behind all afternoon, but on the strength of a 3-run 8th-inning home run, they pulled up to 4-3, to make it competitive, but this was only a temporary reprieve, as the leaky bullpen blew it in the 9th inning and we lost 8-4.)

I was glad to ride consecutive round trips to Marsh Park again today, like yesterday, thus getting 17.5 miles in 1 hour and 49 minutes. Beginning tomorrow, though, I hope to ramp up so that my 'standard' daily ride is three round trips to Marsh, for 25.5 miles. I've done this a couple of times so far, but I want to make it my new norm for July so that I can more easily step up to four (33.5 miles) in August.