Fortunately Rob and I thought to exchange cell phone numbers so we could be in touch by text, because I had been waiting for him only a short time when I received a message explaining that he would be unavoidably detained. I ended up waiting for about an hour, but a third of this was due to my early arrival, and anyway it was pure pleasure, waiting in the warm summer morning sunshine (on a beautiful day).
While I was waiting for Rob, an older man (OK, not that much older - probably mid-sixties) came riding by, and stopped and wanted to chat with me. I've ridden past him numerous times in the past; he said his name is Ron. I fished my card out explaining why I couldn't talk, and also extracted from the pouch on my seat the copy of the Ann Arbor News article about me that I keep there for just such a purpose, and gave it to him. Ron also asked me how many miles I ride a day, and I told him (with my fingers) that I probably average 10-20 miles a day. Just having done the math now, I find that since I got the trike on May 2, I'm averaging just over eleven and a half miles daily—less than I had thought.
Once Rob arrived, we rode a little short of an hour, along the Lohr-Textile Greenway down to Marsh Park, and then back to the Rec Center. After we said our goodbyes and made plans to ride again on Labor Day weekend, I rode home, to complete a day's ride of 17 miles in 2 hours and 11 minutes, and this pushed me over 1200 miles for the year.
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