I had hoped to ride two more round trips to Marsh Park today, like the preceding two days. But I ended up wimping out and settling for one. This was in part due to this morning's mechanical troubles, which, though I eventually overcame them, drained my gumption. And in part it was due to the weather. Riding in 45° conditions was not overly cold, but a vigorous wind of 20 mph and gusting considerably higher brought the wind-chill down to 37° and set up quite a challenge for the rider.
At any rate, the 10 miles I did (including the final loop within our complex) brought me across a new mileage threshold, up to 2403.8. This leaves 2500 miles for the year still within the realm of possibility, though I'll have to work for it. It may seem unlikely, since out of the 358 days of the year so far, I've averaged a little over 6.7 miles a day, and I'll need to average 13.7 on the remaining 7 days of the year to make it. However, when you take into account that I didn't even get my trike until May 2, and thus did those 2403.8 miles in 247 days, my average daily ride so far has been 9.7 miles, it makes it seem more feasible.
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