2021 mileage: 843.8
Last night we received the most severe winter weather we have experienced here in Ann Arbor, Michigan in two or three years. Several inches of snow, and increasingly cold temperatures made me extremely glad for our stationary cycle! When I began this morning at just past 10:00, it was 16°, and now at just past 1:00, though it is brightly sunny (an unusual winter feature for Michigan), it is 18° with a wind-chill of about zero.
Anyway, I decided to begin my ride with some southern warmth, and went to the Lone Star State to ride virtually for an hour on a trail which mostly runs beside the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. The video, however, was taken by a runner, and has no music added, so the accompanying sound track takes me back over a decade, to when I could still run (or, as a more athletically gifted friend likes to say, I would "run"), with the sound of footfalls and labored breathing.
Then for the latter part of my ride, I watched a movie my daughter had recommended to me a couple of years ago. She made this recommendation knowing full well of my lifetime fondness for science fiction—the 2015 romantic fantasy movie The Age of Adaline is about a woman born in 1908, who experiences a unique and remarkable medical condition at age 29 that stops her aging, and it ends with her 2015 death in a car accident, still looking as though she is in her twenties.
At any rate, this combination allowed me to ride (virtually) 38.3 miles, in 2:44.
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