163rd ride - 11/29/2015

Today, Michelle went out of town with a friend. For me, that meant bussing to church, and as it is on the other side of Ann Arbor and involves a route transfer, this meant a relatively early departure (9:15) in order to make the 11:00 service. So I decided to wait and ride after I got home today. After church finished (just past noon) I walked the few blocks down to the Cottage Inn pizza restaurant I favor, and after a leisurely lunch there and bussing home, I arrived around 2:30.

I decided to wait and ride at 4:00, and had hoped to do 40+ laps of our condo complex, for a ride of 20 miles. (I wanted to stay close to home, since my 'emergency lifeline', Michelle, was out of town, and I didn't want to have to walk several miles home in my biking shoes in case of emergency.) But I was getting tired of the "gerbil on a wheel" feeling of these .47-mile laps, and it was also cold (though I was not uncomfortable, in my heavy winter coat and gloves), and with darkness descending (before 5:00!) I decided to call a halt to it after 21 laps (9.9 miles, which I did in 58:38).