41st ride of 2015 - Thursday, 6/18/2015

Michelle and I experienced a MASSIVE joy today, as Christy came down for the day to spend it with us, leaving Izzy and Danny behind with their grandmother. After a magnificent time together, she left mid-afternoon, and then I went out to ride, having decided not to try to squeeze one in early this morning since I didn't know what time she'd be arriving. Hit and miss thunderstorms were predicted for today, and when I left for the ride it was fine, but just in the last five minutes, it began to rain, and I heard some distant rumbles of thunder, making me glad for the timing.

I rode the round trip to Marsh Park again today (9.5 miles), in 1 hour and 5 minutes. Down along Textile, just east of Lohr, I thought I passed my friend (and Michelle's teaching colleague) Andy Zimmer, running on the path with his big golden dog. However, my vision is poor enough, even with my glasses, that I couldn't be 100% certain it was him. The route felt even more meaningful today, because this morning Michelle, Christy, and I drove it so I could show them the path and where it goes ... so it sort of seemed like they were with me on the ride. I was also glad that Christy had had time to see the trike and do a short test ride while she was here, so she can better know what I'm going through. She found the ride around the circle of our complex (almost a half mile) to be taxing;

I should have had her do the ride I did today! To be fair, though, she was laboring under a misunderstanding, as I had mistakenly told her she'd be doing about a quarter-mile ride.