Wednesday 18 May Route - Longest?
Very Short Birthday Ride to P.O.
I've been Riding without Writing too much lately. Well, actually not enough Riding either, but way too little keeping up the memos with writing.
At my age, suddenly attaining 75 today, my hands are so unsteady I rarely can manually write anything that is legible, even to me. I can still find the keys on the laptop (thank goodness for high school typing class!) so this is my ignoble method of "keeping a journal" so to speak.
Pedaling the Trike around is still my favorite method of displaying what energy I have left. Walking is problematical with my diabetic feet but it's interesting (at least to ME) that I can do miles of pedaling the trike up hill and down dale with marvelously fewer breaks.
We had hoped to travel up to the Katy Trail (decomissioned MKT train trail) and let me trike at least a few dozen miles for my birthday, but the forecast called for temperatures up there in the low THIRTIES (In late MAY?) so we tossed other options about, such as riding Route 60 over to Cabool - about 10 miles one-way,
thence a short ride over to the Cabool Park with its very nice paved foot / bike path around the pond.
But the weather got in the way. The thunder-boomers started about 2:00 AM this
morning, with rain early in the waking hours. THEN it cleared, with a bright
sunny day, no clouds in the sky, and I rode the trike over to the local P.O. taking
some mail for Jacque to the outbound box. Only had to splash through a few
puddles. My hopes for more sunshine and riding were dashed when the clouds suddenly conglomerated again and we spent most of the day watching it rain.
The power blinked once or twice but stayed on and nothing had to be reset so far as we could ascertain.
Jacque cooked some of Jim's favorite dishes and life is good. For some unknown reason God has allowed me to make it another year. Now all I have to do is make good use of it.
Ride Started: 9:14 AM Ride Ended: 11:21 AM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.0 Ending Battery Voltage: 12.7
Lowest Temp: 64 F Highest Temp: 78 F
Beginning Blood Glucose: 150 Ending BG: 110
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 7.54
Overall Average Speed Moving Avg Max Speed
3.5 MPH 8.5 MPH 23.2 MPH
Total Trip(s) Time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 8 minutes 53 Minutes 1 hour 15 minutes
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