174th ride- 12/18/2015

After allowing myself the day off yesterday, it felt good to get back to riding today, though I eased up and only did again a single round trip to Marsh Park, with the concluding loop in our complex to give me an even 10 miles in a slow 1 hour and 6 minutes. This was partly due to the cold (29°), and partly due to some minor mechanical mishaps I experienced early in the ride (balking at the weather, perhaps?), but they soon worked themselves out.

As I rode, the vocal musician in me couldn't help bubbling up, and I found a parody of "Over the River and Through the Woods" beginning to unfold in my head:

Over the trail and through the cold

Unto the park I ride.

The wheels and the like will carry the trike

As onward I will glide …

Over the trail and through the cold,

Oh, how the wind does blow.

It stings the toes and bites the nose

As over the trail I go