This morning, I went out at 8:15, and managed consecutive round trips to Marsh Park (for the first time since December 3). With the additional concluding loop I added in our complex, this gave me 18.0 miles in 1 hour and 52 minutes—by no means a good time, but I was glad just to be able to do it.
This brought me up to 2375.8 miles for the year. So if I am going to make 2500 miles, as I'd like to, it means 124.2 more miles, or an average of just under 14 miles a day for the remaining 9 days of the year. (I will only ride 10 miles [I hope] on Christmas morning, so the other days will have to be slightly higher to compensate.) This is certainly doable if our mild weather, influenced by El Niño, holds—but probably not if more seasonal winter weather descends upon us.
Today's ride was in 48° weather—quite mild—but extremely moist. No active precipitation, but we had gotten some overnight, leaving the trail extremely wet, and the humidity was quite high, with the first half of the ride taking place in a substantial fog.
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