Total mileage for 2017: 909.4
I have been remiss in recent days, not having ridden since Thursday. So it was a delight to get out today, on another glorious spring day—sunny and 64° when I left at noon, and up to 70° when I finished. Friday I had an extremely busy day with errands, and decided I'd just have to take it as a rest day. Then Saturday, Michelle and I spent the day in Lansing, at our grandchildren's soccer games, lunching with her parents to celebrate Mother's Day, and going to the Lansing Children's Choir concert of our niece, Lauren. Yesterday I had to be at church early (7:00 a.m.) to warm up with our handbell choir and play at the 8:00 and 9:00 services, and then afterwards we met Christy at IKEA in Canton, where Michelle and Christy shopped, while I composed at a table in the cafe. By the time we got home, I wanted to watch the Tigers' game in California, and then afterwards it was too late.
Today I rode consecutive round trips to Marsh Park, and exceeded the 900-mile mark for the year with this 18.2 miles (in 2:01)—a milestone I reached last year on May 21. I had planned to ride farther, but the call of composition was too compelling, as I'm making excellent headway on a piece I'm writing for the children's choir at Emerson (a setting of a favorite Dr. Seuss text).
Today's ride also included one very minor calamity. On my first time back from the park, as I rumbled across one of the wooden boardwalks alongside Textile Rd., my plastic water bottle shook free from its cage, fell to the surface, and rolled over to the side and off the boardwalk and down several feet. By the time I could get stopped and go back to look for it, I could not find it ... and even if I had seen it, probably could not have reached it anyway. But a replacement tomorrow is fairly inexpensive.
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