I "lazied out" yesterday and decided not to ride. Still, though, I feel very good about the way I used my time, completing two compositions for male chorus. One, a setting of the powerful Langston Hughes poem When I Grew Old, calls for accompaniment of piano, horn, and cello. The other, brief and playful, is a setting of the e.e.cummings poem maggie and milly and molly and may, and requires the pianist to dance nimbly (but easily) over the keys.
So today I was glad to get back on the trike, and went out just past 8:30 on a cool (58°), cloudy morning, riding consecutive round trips to Marsh Park. I completed the 18 miles in a fairly good time of 1:43:48 (my record for this ride is just over 1:42), and decided to hold myself back and do only the two round trips because of the call of yet more composing. Having done my annual piece with the Emerson Orchestra this week (in concert Thursday night, and then again at a school assembly yesterday afternoon), I am beginning now on next year's piece.
Also, two major milestones. Today's ride put me over (1) 900 miles for the year, and (2) 100 hours of elapsed riding time.
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