Today's ride was an adventure! I rode to Baker Rd. (Dexter) and then just after I turned around to head back home, I noticed that I had no left brake. Glancing down I could see that the cable had broken (perhaps from my leg hitting it on pedal upstrokes?), but by riding carefully I was able to make it the nearly 10 miles back home with no incident. And then I was able to take it immediately over to Wheels in Motion, where they quickly repaired it with a new cable, so now I'm 100% once more.
I had hoped to tack on a round trip to Marsh Park after I got back from Baker Rd, but given the situation with the brakes, I thought it better to hold off on that, so I had to be content with a ride of 19.8 miles in a slow time of 2:38. The entire ride was gray and gloomy, and when I left, at 8:30, it was 39°—making my gloves (for the first time this fall) feel good.
But when I finished, it had heated up to a toasty 49°. 😎
And finally, I set one milestone, going over 400 hours of elapsed riding time for the year ... but fell just shy of another (2800 miles, which I should reach tomorrow).
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