Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Thanksgiving, Vomiting Virus, and Other Excuses


Reasons (I.E., Excuses) why we haven't been human-powering anything recently:
1) - I underwent cataract surgery on my left eye on 16 November, Friday.
2) - Doctor's orders included a restriction on exercise for the next 10 days after the operation.
3) - On Thanksgiving Day, Jacque awoke with the dreaded Norwalk or Vomiting Virus, with violent diahrrea and vomiting that lasted a blessedly short 48 hours.
4) - The day after she started feeling better, Sunday morning, **I** awoke with the exact same symptoms which kept me horizontal for 24 hours and in no mood to ride the day after (Monday last).
5) - We sorta kinda thought we might ride yesterday, Tuesday, but didn't quite get around to it.
We paid for all this inactivity today.  We did the most simplest ride we know of, though energy-sapping:  Riding the almost 3 miles to the Post Office and back.  My legs were stiff, STIFF, almost all the way to the Post Office.  After the short break of mailing our outgoing stuff and viewing our single piece of incoming junque mail, my legs were warmed up and felt much better.
We are having trouble trying to hate this warm winter.  Yes, it freezes at night, but just barely recently, and the daytimes have been relatively warm and sunny.
Something is wrong with my GPS/Tracker/APRS Ham Radio system.  Gotta go work on that....
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles:  3.54
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
4.4 MPH                                  5.9 MPH                    26.8 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
 48 mins 28 secs                    35 mins 55 secs         12 minutes 33 seconds

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