69th ride of 2020 - Saturday, 6/13/2020
2020 mileage: 2197.6
I had wanted to do an early ride this morning. However, plagued by tiredness and laziness stemming from being up in the night (as always), I didn't get started until the shamefully late hour of 6:45. 😎
Despite this sloth, however, I had a relatively good ride, going over to loop around St. Joe's Hospital and from there heading to downtown Ypsilanti before returning home. This gave me 26.6 miles in 3:11.
The ride was not without its frustrations, however. For one thing, my battery cord kept inexplicably pulling out of my phone—and this must have happened eight or nine times! I kept stopping, pausing MapMyRide, and patiently and painstakingly digging the battery out of its pocket in my neck pouch, removing the phone also, plugging it in, turning the battery back on, replacing both pieces of equipment ... each time this happened, of course, any momentum I had built up was squandered, and then i'd end up having to do it again a few minutes later. Finally, the last time, I just let it go and rode home the final three miles or so with it unplugged.
Also, Ypsilanti exhibits a distinctly lower socioeconomic level than Ann Arbor, and this manifests itself in much less fastidious creation of and maintenance of infrastructure. There were several stretches with no sidewalk, so that I had to take to the street briefly. This was never a safety issue, as traffic was nearly nonexistent early on a Saturday, but still, I made a mental note to myself not to revisit that route.
Thirdly, I had a spill. As I approached the hostpital, at the intersection of Golfside and Clark, when turning onto the trail that runs alongside Clark, I failed to slow sufficiently, and rolled the trike. Of course, the chain came off, so it took a little bit of finagling to get myself put back together, but this episode was not really a big problem, and I was not hurt at all, despite the worried cries of a couple of passing motorists—"Are you all right, sir? Do you need any help?" Nice to know there are Good Samaritans in the world!
I had wanted to do an early ride this morning. However, plagued by tiredness and laziness stemming from being up in the night (as always), I didn't get started until the shamefully late hour of 6:45. 😎
Despite this sloth, however, I had a relatively good ride, going over to loop around St. Joe's Hospital and from there heading to downtown Ypsilanti before returning home. This gave me 26.6 miles in 3:11.
The ride was not without its frustrations, however. For one thing, my battery cord kept inexplicably pulling out of my phone—and this must have happened eight or nine times! I kept stopping, pausing MapMyRide, and patiently and painstakingly digging the battery out of its pocket in my neck pouch, removing the phone also, plugging it in, turning the battery back on, replacing both pieces of equipment ... each time this happened, of course, any momentum I had built up was squandered, and then i'd end up having to do it again a few minutes later. Finally, the last time, I just let it go and rode home the final three miles or so with it unplugged.
Also, Ypsilanti exhibits a distinctly lower socioeconomic level than Ann Arbor, and this manifests itself in much less fastidious creation of and maintenance of infrastructure. There were several stretches with no sidewalk, so that I had to take to the street briefly. This was never a safety issue, as traffic was nearly nonexistent early on a Saturday, but still, I made a mental note to myself not to revisit that route.
Thirdly, I had a spill. As I approached the hostpital, at the intersection of Golfside and Clark, when turning onto the trail that runs alongside Clark, I failed to slow sufficiently, and rolled the trike. Of course, the chain came off, so it took a little bit of finagling to get myself put back together, but this episode was not really a big problem, and I was not hurt at all, despite the worried cries of a couple of passing motorists—"Are you all right, sir? Do you need any help?" Nice to know there are Good Samaritans in the world!
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