TOTAL MILEAGE FOR 2016 - 2541.9
This morning I could not do my preferred early ride, due to a schedule conflict. Our small group from church was helping distribute breakfasts at a downtown church that runs this as a daily program for homeless people (mostly men). We needed to be there at 7, and left just past 9. Rather than try to squeeze in a ride before the noon Michigan football game (the home opener), I elected to come home and "nap" with ESPN's College Gameday on.
So I went out after the game, leaving a little after 3:30, and rode a round trip to Baker Rd. (Dexter), covering this 18.5 miles in 2:10. It felt odd to ride in warmer conditions than I usually do, but at least, thank goodness, at 76° it was far from hot.
One semi-humorous incident occurred on the way home. I rode out there on the sidewalk that runs along the south side of Jackson Rd., and then when I got to Baker, I crossed (at the crosswalk) and came back along the sidewalk on the northern side. When I got roughly halfway between Baker and Zeeb (which Siri, amusingly, told Christy was to be pronounced Ze-eb, as two syllables) I was riding through a canopy of branches from bushes that had overgrown the sidewalk. As I brushed through them, I emerged to see a group of three young women (it will be seen why I do not call them "ladies") who were standing by the road, some 10 feet to my right, waiting for the bus. One of them quickly pivoted her head in my direction, not angrily but having been alarmed by the sound and my sudden appearance, and exclaimed relievedly, "Dude—you scared the shit outta me!:
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