28th ride

After our terrific picnic with Christy's family this afternoon, and they left, I went out at 3:30 with my heart singing and rode a moderately lengthy loop of 16.4 miles around the northwestern parts of Ann Arbor, toward the end stopping in at church to do my weekly preparation of the projections for use in tomorrow's services. After not riding yesterday because of a peculiarly askew schedule, it felt good to get back on track today, and absolutely wonderful to ride in the springtime sunshine, with a temperature in the mid-sixties allowing me to ride in shorts for my first time. Although, at 1:29 (for a speed of just under 12 mph), my time was far from good, it is steadily improving, and that satisfies me for now.