Today was a milestone day. I went out in cool enough conditions so that my gloves felt perfect, as did my fleece worn over a hoodie worn over a t-shirt; but still, it was much more tolerable than yesterday's rides! I rode consecutive round trips to Marsh Park, completing the 17.5 miles in 1 hour and 42 minutes, to push me over 2100 miles for the year since getting the trike on May 2. I am now wondering whether it is realistic to consider making 2500 miles by Thanksgiving, and perhaps even (weather permitting) 3000 by year's end. The vast majority of the miles I've ridden this year have, of course, been on my own trike; but when we visited Ft. Collins, Colorado in July, I got a trike from the Ft. Collins Bike Library and rode almost 80 miles on it in the week we were there.
And today's portion of 'adventure' came early in the ride. Less than 5 minutes into it, my right shoelace came undone and got wrapped around the pedal crank. Now, this has happened in the past, and it's a sufficient challenge when seated on the trike to lean forward and get it disentangled even while on flat ground. However, today it occurred on an uphill stretch whose gradient was too steep for my brakes to hold. So I had to try and hold it in position as best I could with my left heel, while leaning forward with my right leg outstretched and the shoelace caught, and do my best to fix the mess. About 5 minutes later, I was finally on my way.
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