41st ride

I rode to church late this afternoon to do my weekly data input work for them, and went a moderately lengthy route (10.2 miles in 56 minutes) there and back. I had set out to ride a longer one (16.4 miles), but the ferociously strong and biting wind knocked that aim down within a few miles. Just about every factor was working against me today - in addition to the wind, it was cold (low forties), and I was riding with the taste of a bitter Detroit Tigers defeat in my mouth, as they had led the Cleveland Indians nearly all afternoon in the rubber game of a three-game series, but then surrendered the tying run in the 9th inning and Cleveland's winning run in the 10th. However, the one thing in my favor was that after my jarring collision with the curb yesterday, Lorne Groe went over my bike with a fine-toothed comb, test rode it, and pronounced me "good as new." This brought me great peace of mind.