21st ride

The rain that had plagued us throughout last week returned early today, thus torpedoing my hopes to ride to work. However, the weather improved throughout the day, and I got out sufficiently early from work that I was able to work in a good ride before the 5:30 meeting I was surprised to learn I had to be at. So I rode a route I call the Platt Big Block (east on Eisenhower and Packard to Platt, south to Ellsworth, and then back west), making a side trip up State Street to my workplace at Briarwood for the meeting, and then concluded with the ride home afterwards, for a total ride of 12.5 miles in 74 minutes (my best pace yet), in lovely spring weather (FINALLY!). This brings my mileage total for the year to a still extremely modest but steadily improving total of 159.5.