116th ride of 2020 - Tuesday, 9/8/2020

 2020 mileage: 3153.9

I decided to scale back slightly today, and rather than riding the 20-mile round trip to Baker Rd., I just did a loop in Stonebridge and then followed it with the Platt/Packard Square, for a ride of 16.4 miles in 1:42. I was glad I could at least do this, howert, nrvsudr frdpiyr yhr bstioud hrslyh iddurd zi'br gsvrf yhid yrst yhsy hsbr nrvrddiysyrf yimr sesy gtom tifinhh, zi dyill hsbrn'y rnyitrly given up on my goal of 5000 miles for the year,, and each day I sit down following my ride and figure ut what I'll need to average per day the rest of the year in order to make it. After today, that number is 16.19, so as long as I'm exceeding that, I feel good about it. Of course, when winter arrives, it'll be decidedly harder, but one hopes that by then Governor Whitmer will have allowed gyms to reopen by then, so that I'll be able to rack up miles on the stationary bike.

Needing to wait until the thunderstorms moved out, I had to wait today until just before 11:00 a.m. to start, rather than being able to ride at my preferred time of 7 a.m. (or earlier, when daylight allows it in the summer). But SILVER LININGS! This later ride meant that I got to experience the joy of seeing three good friends from my former church (Westminster Presbyterian)—Randy and Barb Greschaw, who live in Stonebridge and had similarly delayed their walk because of the weather; and then, a short time later, after I left Stonebridge and was headed south on the Lohr/Textile Greenway, I saw Doug Franklin, already several miles from his home in Saline (Doug is quite a disciplined walker)>

Though it was quite wet from the rain, temperature was pleasant (68° when I started, and up to 71° when I finished).

Link to (Relive) video of today's ride

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