Total mileage for 2017: 1498.1
This was a disappointing day for riding. I set out to do five round trips to the park, which, while not a record, would have been a good, soli ride of forty-plus miles.I was fully prepared to make it as well—both physically and mentally.
However, just as I turned around to begin the second round trip, I was trading texts with Doug, who offered to come over this afternoon and teach me how to change a tire—an essential skill for all PALM (Pedal Across Lower Michigan) participants, the big 250-mile cycling tour from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie that I look forward to doing next week. And then shortly after finishing the text and beginning to ride again, I began hearing a noise (faint but definite) coming from the left wheel. Wary of trying to push on and cause damage, I decided to wheel about and head home. And this may have been God's way of forcing me to take a short day, too, for my own good—just a couple of minutes after turning back towards home, I began feeling a mild pain (nothing serious, I'm fairly sure) in my right knee.
All in all, then, I ended up with a ride of 11.6 miles in a slow time of 1:29. Cutting my plans short also caused me to fall just shy of the 1500-mile plateau for the year, a milestone I had fully expected to reach today.
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