2021 mileage: 2315.0
It occurred to me that for some readers, the whole world of "recumbent trikes" may be quite unknown and mysterious. I do it because balance issues resulting from my 1993 Traumatic Brain Injury render riding a regular bike to be unsafe for me. (I found this out the hard way in 2013 and 2014 when several falls from one gave me a broken clavicle (or collarbone , a broken rib, a concussion (despite the helmet), and numerous other injuries. Here is a picture of me on the trike (Michelle took it a few summers ago):
Leaving at 7:15 this morning, it was nice and brisk (36°), but by no means intolerable. I did a round trip to Matthei Botanical Gardens (32.3 miles in 3:30), going through Gallup Park both on my way to the Gardens and also on my way home. And by the time I finished, it had warmed up nicely, to 50°.
On the outbound leg of my trip, when going through the park, I met with (relatively minor) calamity, when riding this walkway over a main wooden bridge into the park. The walkway is relatively narrow, and in attempting to keep left so I wouldn't hit the wooden curb, I was insufficiently cautious (unlike several previous times when I've negotiated it without incident) and drifted left into the chain link fence, ripping off my mirror which extended from the end of my left handlebar. A trip to the biking store (probably tomorrow) will remedy that.
On the way to the Gardens, I got this picture of the Huron River while passing through Gallup Park.
And on the way home, I got this companion picture.
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