2021 mileage: 5664.4
Today's ride left me with decidedly mixed feelings.
First, I was delighted to be able to do my first outdoor ride since November 19! It's been mild all week, but schedule considerations kept me from riding outside. Today, though, I was finally able to get it done, leaving just past 8:30 a.m.
However, it was a day on which the word "raw" is a perfect descriptor. Cool (43° when I started), gray with a bit of wind, and both atmosphere and the ground being heavily moist, from last night's substantial rains which are also supposed to return this afternoon. I wore my (Michigan) gloves, but finished the ride with them soaked and muddy, in need of laundering.
Then to cap it off, after riding almost all of the Packard/Platt Square the chain locked up on me at the intersection of Lohr and Oak Valley, just before I started up the hill, and with about 3/10 mile to go. I got off and looked, but couldn't see anything obvious, and considering the weather and the fact that I was tiring by that point, I just locked it up and walked home, and will go back down and pick it up with our car after Michelle gets home so that I can work on it in the garage. Walking with my cycling shoes and their metal cleats is a pain in the backside, but I shuffled along slowly and made it OK without falling.
All this gave me a ride of 13.3 miles in 1:47.
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