Trike Trash Hauling

Today's Travel Tracking

We got only a couple hours of real sleep last night.  The weather forecast had called for hail and thunderstorms about midnight.  All was calm and quiet when we went to bed, thinking amongst ourselves that the TV weather dudes and dudettes were smoking something strange.  Around 1:30 AM our much-hated weather radio blasted us awake, warning Wright County to take cover, amongst other counties of course.
Since we dwell in Wright County this alarm alarmed us, though at first we still heard no sound of rain and only faint breezes blowing outside.  As we watched the radar progress across the TV screen, the storm fronts seemed to be moving east sorta towards us at speeds between 45 and 70 MPH.
Around the wonderful hour of 2:30 AM, the TV screen showed red and yellow slashes right next to dear old Mountain Grove, but the tornado warning had been downgraded to "Severe Thunderstorm Warnings".  This was not a whole lot of comfort since severe thunderstorms often spawn tornadoes.
High winds and heavy rain pummeled us for a while, and the lightning flashes, though miles distant, lit up the sky and rocked the neighborhood with very vocal thunder, but no tornadoes nor further alarms resulted and we finally got to bed close to 3 AM.  Since we get up at 5 AM sharp, the night's rest was lacking.
So today I took a later morning nap from around 8 AM to 9:30 and it felt great. Jacque and I worked on more kitchen painting and by four-ish I was ready to try a ride, though still fatigued.
Happy I was to finally get outside and saddle up.  I more motivated myself for the ride by "running an errand" by loading up the trike trailer, normally used for doggie rides, with a stack of collapsed cardboard boxes we continue to accumulate as we unpack from moving as well as flatten boxes received in the mail with various supplies.

The load looked heavy but I doubt it was much more than 20 pounds.
The cardboard recycler, who seemingly is never staffed, but has trailers full of cardboard whence more can be added, was not far away, about eight-tenths of a mile.  So, with trailer now empty, I rode the long way around our burg to get a few more miles under my belt.
Riding around, as usual, improved my grumpy sleep mood greatly.
Again I encountered an un-leashed dog of medium size, but he merely followed me a hundred feet or so without aggression or even barking.  No problem.
My feet were a bit more sore than usual, but not in any extreme.
Hopefully the unusual fall weather will fade a bit and allow us a few nights of deep sleep.
Jacque may be a Spring Chicken, but I, sadly, am not.

Ride Started:   4:10 PM      Ride Ended:  5:24 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.9  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  13.0

Lowest Temp:  61 F    Highest Temp:  75  F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:  5.82
Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  5.3 MPH                             6.8 MPH               18.2 MPH

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 5 mins                       52 minutes          14 minutes