2021 mileage: 3905.3
I am keeping my rides intentionally on the short side these days, in order to preserve energy and time (to practice) for an upcoming piano performance. (Next Sunday, I am accompanying the oboe professor at U of M in an oboe solo I have written, at the 9:00 a.m. service.) So, even though I generally prefer to do a longer ride on Saturday, this morning I kept it light, and just rode a modified version of the Platt/Packard Square—one that took me by Pheasant Run Apartments on Stone School Rd., where Michelle and I lived from the time of our December 1993 wedding until we bought our condo in the spring of 2004.
One interesting incident occurred, about 3 miles before I finished. I passed a woman who smiled, and then told me in a friendly voice, "OH! You have your banana bike out today!" Now I know that recumbent trikes are an uncommon and unusual sight (with even the word 'recumbent,' meaning "designed to be ridden sitting up with the legs stretched out in front" being quite unfamiliar to the vast majority of people), but I had never before heard it called a "banana bike"!
At any rate, I had an enjoyable ride of 13.4 miles in 1:39, reaching a new mileage milestone (3900) for the year.
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