Riding for CoronaVirus

Today's Tracking via GPS, APRS, and Ham Radio

Been making slow but good progress on Jacque's kitchen remodeling.  I've ridden the trike a couple of times without bragging about it, sadly.
The spring weather here in Missouri, like most everywhere, is spotty and unpredictable.  Rain and more rain.  Drizzly fog much of the day when it ISN'T raining.  The biggest reason MO is so green is because it gets so much /RAIN.  Our basement sump pump chugs on and off day and night, almost all the time.  It takes several "Dry" days of no rain or drippy fog for the basement to dry up enough to allow the pump to stay silent for more than a few minutes at a time.
Sunday was a lovely sunny day with no noticeable rain at all, and I thought sure I was going to get in at least a late afternoon ride - but it didn't materialize.  Oh Well.
Monday, yesterday, the soggy fog lifted later in the day and I COULD have gone for an enjoyable ride but I was trying to make headway on the kitchen.  Interestingly, I ran low on Blood Glucose (a numbing 45 if I remember correctly) just about as bad as I often encounter pedaling around on the trike.  And all I was doing was humping lumber and electrical wiring back and forth between the garage and the kitchen.  So I guess I was getting exercise, just not the most enjoyable kind with screaming speeds of 15 MPH wind in my face.
Jacque is too sweet to me.  Today I was again making debris putting the new false wall in the kitchen and around 3:00 PM she interrupted me by saying "You probably should go for a trike ride".
I didn't immediately quit and saddle up the trike, but after about another hour I did indeed doodle off on the trike.
I had some semi legitimate tasks to accomplish:  I wanted to take a hardware item back for a refund at Ace Hardware, which is about 100 yards due north of Walmart, the northernmost civilized edge of the metropolis of Mountain Grove.  I also had to buy a replacement PVC 5" plug which I had destroyed while digging my drainage ditch behind the house.  I suddenly clunked on something solid yet with a hollow echo, several inches below the surface of the ground, and when I more carefully removed the muck around it - it turned out to be a PVC cleanout for the house sewer.  I couldn't see how or where it connected to the house but I had Jacque flush a commode for me while I listened out at the pipe and sure enough it was indeed connected to our sewer.  No sewage visible, thankfully, but the noise was definitely authentic.
Thus my legit excuses for riding were there in the open.  Mountain Grove Lumber Supply is just across the tracks and around the corner, so that visit didn't take too long to pick up the sewer cap.
Thence onward and upward for the slightly uphill climb northward to US-60 and Ace Hardware just on the other side of Walmart.  I got my refund with little delay and then spent almost half an hour rummaging through the store looking for odds and ends.  I found plenty, and with some surprise I realized just how massive this hardware store is and how much GOOD STUFF they have, and most of it reasonably priced compared to other options in town.  I picked up a couple items and began the trek homeward.
I was also surprised that in spite of the sunny day, the mild breeze was COLD, especially as I rode northward facing into it.  I soon had to stop and put on my cyclist-yellow windbreaker which helped a lot.  By the time I'd gotten to Ace I had warmed up a bit, and the ride home was going to be with the breeze at my back, so I put the windbreaker back in its saddlebag and did fine the rest of the way.

All our local restaurants are closed due to coronavirus panic, but Walmart stays open and Ace Hardware and all the local lumber stores are still open, as are the Casey's  and other 7-11 stores.
It's all very odd to see the warning signs on doors of stores still open:  STAY 6 FEET AWAY, with blue tape on the floor marking where we're supposed to stand when dealing with the checkout clerks.
We stay 6 feet away, most of the time, but have to touch the card reader buttons, use the store pen to sign the receipt, and often even  BRUSH HANDS when the clerk hands us our bag of stuff and/or the receipt.
So most of the stores WE patronize are still open, for which we give thanks.  We've ordered take-out and home delivery of food services, including Pizza of course, mostly in hopes of trying to help them stay in business so we'll someday have restaurants to enjoy eating at again.

Ride Started:   3:58 PM      Ride Ended:  5:28 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.2  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose: 94     Ending BG: 62

Lowest Temp:  60 F    Highest Temp:    71 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   5.60

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  4.3 MPH                             7.3 MPH               23.4 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 30 mins                     53 minutes           37 minutes

Hauling LUMBER on the trike?

Wednesday's GPS Routing via Ham Radio and APRS

Yeah, those are 8 foot 2 X 4's

Bungee'd on the BOB trailer

These were pictures from yesterday's short ride to the lumber store and back.

We're needing a wider door for our bedroom bathroom, so I'm going to attach these boogers to each side of our old 24" door and sand and repaint and.... eventually.  Good things come to Those who Wait.....

So it was only 1.5 miles to this lumberyard and back, and I thought I'd try and see if I could actually get 2 whole 2 X 4's home on the trike/trailer combo.  It worked, but with a couple of small hiccups.

At first I tied the lumber down with the ends sticking way out back.  I barely made it out of the yard before I heard the sticks dragging on the pavement.  Grumbling some nasty comments, I pulled to the curb and was dismayed to find the lopsided lumber load had actually disconnected the trailer from the trike on one side, and had actually bent the steel hitches such that they were unusable.  Thank goodness I carry various and sundry tools with me:  The Vise-Grips came in handy this time.  I was able to bend the steel mounts back into shape with them, reattach the trailer, and re-load the lumber more balanced wise, so the torques and turns no longer tried to wrench the trailer from its mounts.

This time I got the "huge load" home fine and dandy.

That was the second day of riding in the mist just to the lumberyard and back.  A walker going around the village square queried me about riding in such weather and I told him "If I get too picky about perfect weather, around here I'd miss too many days of riding".  He agreed and said he planned to get back on HIS bike, as soon as the weather got better.

Today I was again surprised by our midwest weather:  It was soupy, with fog so thick and moist it was like rain this morning and we could barely see a few feet.  Sometime after noon, the sun burned through and blue sky appeared and it quickly warmed from low 50's to the SEVENTIES.  Wonderful stuff, allowing a few more miles for a wonderful exercise ride.

Lots of friendly waves from motorists and folks out in their yards, all happy to see a nice spring day.

Ride Started:   3:20 PM      Ride Ended:  4:09 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.3  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose: 172     Ending BG: 71

Lowest Temp:  60 F    Highest Temp:    68 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   5.60

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  8.1 MPH                             8.3 MPH               28.8 MPH (Found a Long Downhill!)

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 41 minutes                         40 minutes           1 minute

Longer Days - Still Cold

Saturday GPS Tracking

I almost stayed safely home Saturday, yesterday, but Sweet Jacque encouraged me to take at least a short ride before it got too late.
Again and again we awake to cold soggy rains, continuing most of the day, and occasionally in the early to late afternoon it dries up a  bit, like today, and the skies clear.
It started out in the low 40's and upper 30's this morning but was surprisingly close to upper 60's after the sun had been peeking through the sky for a while.
Thus I wore only my thin bike-yellow windbreaker, half expecting to get overheated.  Didn't Happen.
I noticed it was surprisingly cold when I took off, with a fairly normal southbound breeze coming out of the north.  Since I was headed east and mostly north at first, I was fighting the chill breeze.  I wished I had added another layer but didn't want  to lose time by going back for it.
Cranking faster to warm up a bit, I wandered on.
In spite of the chill, it was again a great feeling to be out meandering under my own steam.
I took a few detours along unfamiliar streets trying to add a few miles with little success.  Fun anyway.
Always interesting to see people's reactions to seeing me on the streets in my contraption.  Adults will often try to ignore me, with some returning a wave and even fewer returning a verbal greeting.
Young kids, on the other hand, usually cry aloud when they spot me, either asking their reluctant parents "WHAT is THAT thing, Mommy?",  or more often "WOW!"  This time my best greeting was from a younger girl who screamed at me as I approached "I WANT that !!"  I responded with my usual big wave of the hand and pedaled onward.
As I passed the northern end of my usual route - the main overpass leading to WalMart on the other side of Route 60 - I thought about stopping over to see if they yet had any toilet paper in stock.
We have not bought any since the Great Crash of 2020 began, but still have several on hand, so I kept going and put off checking for TP for another day.  Supposedly they have begun allowing "Senior Citizens" to come in an hour early one or two days a week for get-ahead-of-the-crowds shopping, so since we ARE in that age bracket maybe we can try it out next week.
Since the days ARE getting longer, I got home 40 or so minutes before sundown in spite of my starting after 5 PM.  Nice.

Ride Started:   5:03 PM      Ride Ended:  6:00 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.2  Ending Battery Voltage:  12.9   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:   68     Ending BG: 96

Lowest Temp:  50 F    Highest Temp:    57 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   7.0

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  7.0 MPH                             8.5 MPH               23.4 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 59 minutes                         49 minutes           10 minutes

Frigid Shopping Run

Today's Chilly GPS Track

Yesterday, Friday the 20th of March, was rainy, drizzly, cold, and weeping FOG.  Springtime in Missouri, for sure.
Again I was surprised when the rain slowed and actually stopped later in the afternoon.  Temperatures were in the mid 40's or so, and WET/COLD, but I knew if I missed a riding opportunity I would regret it.
Since I was out of diet soda, I decided that would be a good motivational excuse to take a ride up to our local Big Box Store.  You know, the one that is sold out of toilet paper currently.
(Actually this applies to MOST stores nowadays?)
So I dragged the trike and doggie trailer out of the garage and hitched everything up.
Thankfully the new tire and tube on the rear wheel were still holding good air pressure.
It turned out to not be freezing, but pretty numbing.  Even with the cold breeze, as usual it was a nice mood enhancer to be out pedaling around like a loony bird.
I wore a light sweater over my shirt and my biking/yellow windbreaker on top of that, and stayed fairly comfy, and did NOT get overheated.  For my tender pinkies I wore my hunting mittens, with the flap that folds back for decent finger activities but keeps the fingers warm and together when covered, unlike gloves with separate fingers.
Why most passersby look at me weird, I have no idea.....
I arrived safely in the "Big Box" parking lot, and entered the modern day equivalent of Buyer's Panic Shopping.  A huge store like this, normally piled to the ceiling with everything under the sun, about HALF empty with huge gaps of empty shelves where few normal things are available.
I checked the toilet paper aisle, just for fun, and it wasn't fun:  EMPTY
I was surprised they seemed to have a decent supply of diet soda, and I got a couple of 12-packs, leaving plenty for other motivated buyers.
When my Dad was still alive he would often talk about some of his experiences during the Great Depression of 1929-1933.  He said often "There will never be another great depression!" 
I never thought I would see such dramatic conditions and panic as we see today, and "only" a couple of weeks of panic have resulted in thousands of closed businesses and lost jobs and stock market declines.
The trip home was not much different than normal even with the additional 20 pounds or so of soda pop.  The B.O.B. trailer is a wonderful accessory.  It's small but can haul a lot of weight and bulk without any trouble......
We wait and see how this all plays out in the end.
Maybe we'll be all riding bikes and trikes before long....

Ride Started:   4:00 PM      Ride Ended:  5:10 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.5  Ending Battery Voltage:  12.9   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:   86     Ending BG: 94

Lowest Temp:  39 F    Highest Temp:    42 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   6.29

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  5.3 MPH                             7.3 MPH               23.0 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 10 mins                   52 minutes           19 minutes

Drat: A Flat

Today's Tire Test Route

We've had cold, wet, sloppy rainy weather recently, and we're tired of it, as if we have any control over such things.
Imagine our surprise today:  I had to walk the dogs in drizzle and dark cold this morning.  As is too close to normal nowadays.
About another hour later the sky started to clear and the SUN actually came out, and the temperature warmed from the 40's  up into the 70's.
WOW.  Too good to miss out on:  A great riding day.
Howsomever, when I rolled the trike out of the garage I noticed a bit of sag as it rolled.  I was shocked, SHOCKED when I poked around and found a tire totally flat.... And of course it was the REAR wheel, with its surrounding brackets and derailleurs.... requiring a total removal of the wheel to get to the tire and tube. 
It turns out I haven't had a flat in SEVERAL months..... Long enough I struggled to remember even how to DO all this, which I've of course done many times.  But not recently.  I finally relocated my tire tools, slowly got the wheel out of the chain and brackets, and pried the tire off the rim and got the tube out.  Of course by now I could not see any trace of a puncture, and it took a bit of close examining several tries before I found the leaking pin-hole.
Feeling around inside the tire itself to find the possible culprit that spiked my tube, again it took several tries to find a tiny spike I could hardly see...... One of the dreaded  tiny radial tire-wires that usually remain unseen until they finally open the tiny pin hole that lets the air out all too fast.
After several tries with the needle nose pliers, I finally got it out..... a tiny speck of wire not quite 1/4" long wire, barely visible even when held up to the light.
I started to patch the tube, but remembered I have started just installing new tubes instead of worrying about how well I patched the old one.  I actually carry TWO new spares with me in the saddlebag on all rides, so I pulled a new one out to install.  As I examined the tire carcass itself, I realized it was showing signs of wear - not quite bald but getting close.  Since I also had a brand new Marathon "Puncture Proof" tire - still in the package I bought a year or so ago, I dragged it out of its hidey hole in the RV and used it.  Brand new and stiff and tight, it took some "Rassling" to get it to go on the rim properly.
Finally done, 60 PSI installed, and mounted back on the trike, of course it needed a test ride to see if the new tire was going to work OK.
Rode a partially new route first to the venerable hardware store and then around town, it appears the new tire is doing OK.
Hopefully it will still have air in it tomorrow.

Ride Started:   4:02 PM      Ride Ended:  5:34 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.4  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:   86     Ending BG: 78

Lowest Temp:  67 F    Highest Temp:    75 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   9.26

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  6.5 MPH                             8.1 MPH               20.6 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 30 mins                   1 hour 12 mins      18 minutes

Highway Cleanup

Today's Plotted Route

Today was a great day, and I was able to get a bit of work done as well as a nice ride.
I added a couple coats of paint to another kitchen cabinet door, and hopefully can eventually get them ALL done before I turn into a hopeless cripple.
The day started out with fairly normal fog and dim sunlight but the clouds burned away and the temperature climbed and it actually hit the low 70's after noon, with little wind or humidity to lessen the enjoyment.
I finally got going on the trike later in the day, and I needed no windbreaker whatsoever.  Great Stuff.
I didn't ride any new areas this time, but added some other roads that I normally don't visit very often and racked up a welcome few more miles.
After a short stop and visit with dear friends on Bell Crossing Road, I rode north and west to the intersection of the Whetstone frontage road and Highway 60, turning east and riding the nice wide shoulder back to the center exit for Mountain Grove.
I rode this route a few days ago and noticed all the truck tire carcasses and scrap on the shoulder, but it seemed today there was a huge increase in the stuff, often blocking my passage without running over it, exposing my precious tires to the steel wires in all the radial scraps, which are infamous for causing slow leaks or outright flats in bicycle tires.  So I decided to slow down and even stop occasionally to grab the garbage pieces and heave them off the paved shoulder and into the weeds.
This quickly led to time-consuming activity since there were  so many pieces for more than a mile.  I actually had to stop and dismount a few times to heave the larger carcasses off the roadway.

I finally got enough cleared that I rode most of the rest of the way with a clear conscience, even though it wasn't I who had put all that stuff there in the first place.
Received a few friendly beep-beeps and several waves along the way, with no hostility from any drivers noticed.  Great Stuff.

Ride Started:   3:50 PM      Ride Ended:  5:52 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  12.9  Ending Battery Voltage:  12.9   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:   130     Ending BG: 61

Lowest Temp:  53 F    Highest Temp:    64 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   12.4

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  6.0 MPH                             8.1 MPH               24.6 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 2 hours 2 mins                   1 hour 30 mins       32 minutes

Just Another Cruise Around

Today's Plotted Route, Radio Didn't Work

I saddled up Tuesday 10 March 2020 and thought I had plenty of time to get more miles under my belt.
We have been getting soaked every other day or so here in Missouri, and I really am motivated to get on the trike when the sun is shining.  Often the day will dawn brightly and then turn foggy and rainy within an hour or two, so I really have to pay attention and ride when I can... or let my blood sugar get too high again.
I started out intending to ride out Highway 60, with its nice wide paved shoulders, to the outskirts of nearby Cabool and back, which would have rolled up about 12 miles or so.
But, by the time I got to the preferred on-ramp to 60, it was 4:30-ish and the commuting traffic was thick enough to deter my enthusiasm.   So I just took the overpass across 60 to our friendly local Walmart.
After a short rest break at that luxurious facility, I tried riding farther north on Highway 95 but the narrow shoulder disappeared quickly in less than 100 yards - so I turned back.
I suppose I need to frequent non paved roads more often.  Lacking shoulders, they also lack fast vehicular traffic....

Ride Started:   3:20 PM      Ride Ended:  5:07 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.2  Ending Battery Voltage:  12.9   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:  154      Ending BG: 86

Lowest Temp:  53 F    Highest Temp:    64 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   8.06

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  4.8 MPH                             7.4 MPH               22.0 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 41 mins                   1 hour 5 mins       36 minutes

Three Went for a Ride

Shortened Route via GPS and Ham Radio

I decided to take Tinkerbell and Lilly "Around Town" with me on Saturday and they didn't object.
The dog-trailer consists of a critter carrier strapped into my B.O.B. trailer, and the passengers are restricted with short leashes so they can move around but hopefully not climb out of the trailer. 

They've  been on several rides with this contraption and so far, so good.
Of course, we had to stop for a potty break along the way.  Lilly is extremely vocal about such situations and we have learned to pay attention when she whines "for no reason".
This trailer is fairly easy to pull, even "loaded" with the 2 mutts.  I DO notice increased effort when climbing hills, but straight and level I hardly notice.

I had planned to make my semi-normal 6-mile ride but started feeling over-fatigued about 2/3 of the way around town, so I cut back across early and came home.
Good thing I did.  I should have tested my blood glucose with a finger-prick and eaten one of my snacks.  My BG (Blood Glucose) was 47, WAY below where I'm recommended to maintain it, and even much lower than most normal humans' average 65.
For some reason I seem to get more honks and waves with the girls riding along.  It couldn't be the fact they are so much better looking than I am....

Ride Started:   2:42 PM      Ride Ended:  3:49 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.3  Ending Battery Voltage:  12.9   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:  90      Ending BG: 47 (Ouch)

Lowest Temp:  57 F    Highest Temp:    67 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   5.86

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  4.2 MPH                             6.6 MPH               21.7 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 7 mins                      43 minutes            25 minutes

Sunny AND Windy...

Today's Predictable GPS Route

Today was another pretty day with lots of sun..... except for fairly stiff winds.
I skipped riding yesterday, and didn't want to skip another nice day, so with Jacque's encouragement I finally dug the trike out of the garage and took off.  Jacque claims it improves my mood.
Imagine that.
I did a fairly familiar route today, except going the other way around.
I stopped first at our local "Arvest Bank" to use the ATM to get some cash.  Of course I got only twenties out of the machine so I road around to go inside to see a real live teller.
Parking out  front, I was shocked when I went inside and asked for some Fives in exchange for my Twenties I'd just retrieved.  The smiley teller asked if I had an account in this bank, and when I said no, she said "We'll have to charge you a 10% service fee.   Is that okay?"
Almost struck dumb(er), I blurted out "I guess NOT!"
I walked out, rode across the street, and got my twenties exchanged for fives by the nice checkout lady in the Richards Grocery Store.  Forewarned is forearmed, I suppose.  The bank had already charged me a fee for using the ATM, and then they wanted a slice of my cash proceeds.  BAH
It took me a few blocks to cool off in spite of the cool breezes whooshing around me.  Never heard of anyone charging a fee for exchanging legal tender before.  What a world.
Everyone else I encountered on today's ride was much more enjoyable.

Ride Started:   2:30 PM      Ride Ended:  3:39 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.0  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  12.9

Beginning Blood Glucose:  90      Ending BG: 261 (Ate without pumping enough)

Lowest Temp:  57 F    Highest Temp:    68 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   5.86

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  6.2 MPH                             7.1 MPH               23.5 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 57 minutes                         49 minutes            8 minutes

Maybe Spring's Coming?

Today's Tracking via Ham Radio and GPS

We were shocked and saddened to hear about the awful storms and tornadoes destroying so much of Nashville last night.  I lived in Clarksville TN, north of Nashville, when I was assigned to the 101st Airborne as part of the 332nd Maintenance Detachment prior to being shipped to VietNam in 1969 and never experienced such havoc, thankfully.
We had a noisy downpour a couple nights ago that involved at least an hour of roaring thunder and lightning crashes, and we feared our local tornado warnings would go off, but it didn't happen.  The electric power stayed on as well, in spite of the tremendous soaking and shaking.
Compared to the disaster in Tennessee, we got off very light.
It was cloudy last night and a bit foggy this morning but by the time the sun came up and we started home from teaching Seminary, the skies were quite bright and warm.  Evidently it actually made it to 60 degrees today, with a low of 39 last night.  As the day wore on, Jacque encouraged me several times to get the trike out and go for a ride.
I was trying to finish installing a huge light fixture over the dining table, and it of course dragged out much longer than desired, with me finally getting saddled up about 4:11 PM or so.
This seems to be very close to my usual departure time, in spite of encouragement from Jacque to get going earlier.  I always seem to try to get something else "done" to a certain point, resulting in close - to - sundown riding.
Thankfully the days are gradually getting longer, with the sun setting a bit later each day, even though Daylight Savings Time has yet to begin.  In 5 more days, of course, we will have another hour of "afternoon sun" to enjoy, at the cost of getting up an hour earlier.
I actually got in a few extra miles today, without crowding the darkness.
Stopping for  a foot and snack break, I was pleasantly accosted by 3 separate drivers who pulled up and asked if I was OK.  The first inquiree was a nice guy in a pickup, and within a few more minutes both a city cop and a highway patrol officer also stopped and asked about my welfare.
Nice guys.  As I continued my ride down the nice wide shoulder of Route 60 back toward Mountain Grove, some wise guy in a passing pickup screamed something silly at me as they passed.
No Problem.  No law against being a wise guy.
Almost 10 miles today.  A great day, and the sun didn't try to hide while I was out and around...

Ride Started:   4:11 PM      Ride Ended:  5:23 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.7  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  13.0

Beginning Blood Glucose:  140      Ending BG: 84

Lowest Temp:  57 F    Highest Temp:    64 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   9.27

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  7.7 MPH                             8.6 MPH               26.5 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 1 hour 12 mins                   1 hour 4 mins         8 minutes

Sunny Day Until I Rode

Today's Tracking via GPS and Ham Radio

Today dawned BEAUTIFUL, bright and sunny.
Still lovely around noon, I knew I was going to get a good ride in.
Around 3-something in the PM, I actually got the trike out of the garage and saddled up.
By the time I left, it had inexplicably clouded over somewhat and remained that way until I was almost home, wherein the sun came back out again.  Go Figure.

Ride Started:   3:22 PM      Ride Ended:  4:11 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.4  Ending Battery Voltage:  13.0   Lowest Voltage:  13.0

Beginning Blood Glucose:  153      Ending BG: 50

Lowest Temp:  57 F    Highest Temp:    67 F

Stats from the GPS:  Total Miles:   6.42

Distance Walked: .6 mile
Overall Average Speed       Moving Avg          Max Speed
  7.7 MPH                             8.0 MPH               21.2 MPH 

Total Trip Time                   Moving Time        Stopped  Time
 50 minutes                         48 minutes            2 minutes