Riding in cool (60°), intensely foggy conditions this morning, I did a single round trip to Marsh Park, completing the 10 miles in 1:17. I have to be at church earlier than usual this morning for a presentation by our handbell choir (The Rings of the Lord), and combining that with the steadily later arriving daylight as the year proceeds (I started at 7:30), I had to do a shorter ride than I would have liked. But I hope and plan to supplement it with another late this afternoon.
The fog was so severe that it kept obscuring my vision through my glasses. I'd swab them off with my t-shirt, and within a couple of minutes they'd be useless again. I actually ended up riding a majority of the ride (the first 50 minutes or so) with my glasses perched down on my nose, peering over the top of them. Given my miserable distance vision, this is not an optimal solution. But riding on the trail with which I am so familiar, and which prohibits motorized vehicles, it was a perfectly comfortable and safe solution.
LATE AFTERNOON
After this afternoon's ballgames (the Tigers won, surprisingly—only their second victory against Cleveland in 15 contests so far this year!—and the Lions lost to Tennessee late in the game after leading for most of it. SOL—Same Old Lions), I went out and did a second day's ride, turning in another single round trip to Marsh Park in 1:13.
Also, just out of curiosity, I consulted the records I keep and found that, since I began riding round trips to Marsh Park on June 16, 2015, in the 460 days since then I have ridden 200 round trips. This is a much poorer record than I had expected, but there are two explanations—occasionally (though not frequently) I have ridden other routes, avoiding my familiar trail to Marsh Park; and then, too, with the old Traveler model that I had there were many days when I could not ride at all due to mechanical issues.
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