Today was a day of diminishing expectations. I went to be last night and woke up this morning hoping to do three round trips to Marsh Park. However, before I began, I remembered that I had planned to hold it at two until I get the brace off my hand.
Then, however, during my first round trip, it became clear to me that I should hold it to one. The misadjustment of my handlebars has my left leg rubbing on the brake cable on the upswing of each pedal rotation, and this has both opened a sore on my left leg, and is also slowly damaging the cable, I fear. I have been unable to remedy it myself, so I have an SOS in to my more mechanically able cycling friend, Doug, to see if we can right the situation.
Anyway then, today I rode just the single round trip, 10.2 miles in a slow time of 1:13, with my leg screaming at me, "You fool! You shouldn't be riding!" But our summery weather persists—At 9:15 when I began, it was 71°, and up to 77° at the finish, with bright sunshine throughout.
My heart was singing, though, with memories of last night. First, Michelle and I and my daughter Christy dined al fresco on the roof of Palio, an Italian restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor, and got a fellow diner to take this picture of us. Then, following dinner, we crossed the street to The Ark where we had tickets to hear Acoustic Eidolon, my favorite non-choral musical performers: a husband-wife duet from Colorado. Both are brilliant performers—Hannah on acoustic cello, and Joe on a custom instrument that he designed and had built, a 14-string, double necked instrument that he calls a guitjo (guitar+banjo).
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