32nd ride

This afternoon, I enjoyed a terrific visit with my good friend (Rev.) Barry Ludwig, Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church. And then following it, with my heart singing, I went out and rode my 8.8-mile "Textile Big Block." While this fell a bit short of the 10 miles that I am coming to regard as a minimal daily standard, I'm OK with it, particularly in light of my time of 42:32—a significant improvement over my first ride of it on March 27 in 47 minutes, as well as subsequent rides of 46 and 45 minutes on April 8 and April 22. I was also happy to see that this brought me up to 298.1 miles for the year—had I known this while I was riding, I might have pushed on to 300, but that would make it tight schedule-wise for me to get to Michelle's 7:00 concert tonight.