180th ride - 12/27/2015

After taking the last two days off because of family Christmas celebrations for which I wanted to reserve a little energy, it felt good to get back to it today. I planned to ride two round trips to Marsh Park, but, as I told Michelle when I came in afterwards, I "wimped out and settled for one," riding late afternoon after the Lions' game. It was not overly cold, at 37°, but on the final stretch I was riding right into the teeth of a vigorous 15-20 mph north wind, and it was all I wanted to do just to finish the one round trip in that 29° wind chill. Anyway, I still have a chance (though not a strong one) of making 2500 miles for the year, if I can do three round trips (which I haven't done consecutively since October 31) on each of the next three days, and then a concluding 10-miler on Thursday, the year's last day.