I was hoping to repeat today the long (20+ mile) ride I did yesterday, in pursuit of the goal of 100 miles for the week we're out here (I had just over 76 miles last night). But Michelle extracted a commitment from me to do a shorter ride today, since yesterday at Starbucks I was so tired that I "cried like a girl" in front of her and Christy—and, she grinned, "we don't want to repeat that!"
So, this morning, leaving before 6:00 a.m. again, I rode eastward on the Poudre Trail (my penultimate ride on it—for this trip, though I hope to ride on it again in the future)—only as far as Lemay and Mulberry, and then turned around and came back. I had planned to ride the portion of the trail that lies west of Taft Hill (I rode it on Thursday, when we were first here) when I got back there—but the trail was detoured for some reason, onto narrow, winding gravel roads. On these I didn't go too far (maybe half a mile) before turning around and heading back for home, where I finished a ride of 1 hour 14 minutes that I'm estimating to have been roughly 12 miles. So, with 88 miles now in Colorado, I should still be able to make my 100-mile goal, with a moderate ride in the morning, and then the mid-morning 3-mile ride back to the bike library to turn in the bike.
And now, with 100 rides, I have done 1177.5 miles, in 115 hours and 47 minutes.
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