You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Odile

 Today's Very Very Short Tracking

Where in the world did someone find a name like "Odile" with which  to name a hurricane?  Just Curious.
Yesterday - Wednesday - It rained and drizzled and misted all day.  So we didn't do anything interesting or go anywhere.
About 5:00 PM, when we had to get ready for a meeting, we were aghast to notice the skies had cleared, only the mildest haze was still visible, and things were drying up.  In short, great weather for a bike/trike ride in the country.  Except we had a meeting we couldn't get out of.  BAH
The weather-guessers had forecast such soupy weather for the next several days, including today, as Hurricane Odile, or the sloppy remnants thereof, swooshed over our state on its way away from drowning southern Arizona this last week.
Such was our surprise to awaken this morning to blue clear skies, as George Strait would sing.  Sunshine a-plenty and hardly a cloud in the sky.  We talked about doing a together ride on the tandem trike until Jacque received a screaming phone call that her buddy Phyllis had just won the "Best of Show" and blue ribbon awards for her Navajo Code Talker Quilt at the New Mexico State Fair.  So Jacque was suddenly in a fever, and she and Phyllis took off for the Fair and pictures and another Navajo Taco without yours truly.
ME?  I took off on a ride all by myself....... with the 2 micro doggies Jazzy and Tink.
Tink rode in the basket behind my seat and Jazzy rode in the belly-hanger papoose-carrier harness strapped to me in front.  The added weight wasn't as bad as feared but I DID notice it climbing the steep hills a bit more sluggish than usual.
Since Jacque and Phyllis were whooping it up at the State Fair I though we had plenty of time to do at least a 20-miler and I had considered earlier doing the 30+ miles around the South Mountain loop but it was not to be.  I had driven Jacque down to Tijeras to meet Phyllis so they could scram to Albuquerque together so when I got the cell phone call at 12:47 PM, barely 3 miles into my ride, I had to turn around and go get the carrito again to go pick her up..... except it turned out she didn't need picking up, just a delivery boy service to Phyllis's casita so Jacque and she could continue working on their projects together.
It was still a beautiful day for a ride.  As usual, leaving late cost me in available time FOR the ride.
Ride Started: 12:10 PM    Ride Ended:  1:17 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.9       Ending Voltage: 13.1
Lowest Temp  71 F      Highest Temp:  84 F 
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  4.95
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  4.2 MPH                               7.3 MPH                    29.4 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
1 hour 10 mins                       41 mins                     29 minutes