2021 mileage: 3994.0
Today's schedule was a bit funky. I had a rehearsal with my trumpet playing cousin Rich Harris and our guitarist, Erik Gibelyou, late morning, and then I waited at home for a call from Michelle to come pick her up from school (where she was busily preparing for the new year which begins next week). Finally after we exchanged texts, I rode at 3:30. The tubes for my new trike arrived today, but I haven't gotten the installation done yet, so I again rode my older backup trike. It went OK, but I will be very glad when I can return to the new one.
I rode a round trip to the near edge of Saline (at the intersection of Woodland Dr. and Ann Arbor-Saline Rd.), to give me 11.2 miles in 1:14. And upon finishing, I had a moment. That older trike is significantly more top heavy than the newer one, and I was reminded of this as I made the right turn into our complex. I couldn't hold it from tipping over, and as I spilled out, my head cracked into the cement curb, making me VERY glad to be wearing my helmet (as I always do). And, as He always seems to do, God provided me with an attending angel ... a woman who was just turning into the complex then, and stopped, asking me in alarm, "Are you OK?" She was eager to help me get up, and was relieved when I indicated that I was fine. When I showed her my card explaining why I can't speak, and saying that I didn't mean to seem rude or unfriendly, she laughed, "Oh my God! I didn't think that AT ALL!"
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be fine in the morning, but for tonight I'm feeling mildly scraped up and sore, so I'm glad to be spending the evening in my La-Z-Boy with my feet up, and watching the Tigers take on the Reds down in Cincinnati.
Had I not already committed to riding the Great Cycling Challenge in support of efforts to battle childhood cancer, i probably would have taken today as a rest day. But in order to make my (self-imposed) goal of 400 miles for the month of September, I need to average over thirteen and a half miles per day, and taking the day off completely would have made it, while not impossible, just one notch harder.
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