88th ride

I was glad to experience today the second of my two best consecutive days at work since I returned to Firestone late last August, having clocked over 17 hours between yesterday and today. Thus buoyed up, I did a long ride home, going down to Saline. I do not have an exact time, as my wrist bent back at one point midway through and pushed the button to stop my watch—but, from the ride's distance of 13.7 miles, and my normal riding pace, I expect that it took me approximately 80 minutes, for a daily total (including the ride to work this morning) of 15.9 miles, in 1 hour 32 minutes. And it boosted my total mileage for the year to over 1000, in just under 99 hours.

I chose a route to Saline different than the others I've ridden since the road construction at State and Ellsworth forced me to change my route. The one I chose today—through the airport, and then back out to State—enabled me to meet the objective I sought (namely, of riding the majority of the way to Saline on State). As a large part of my work duties include shuttling vehicles to and from the airport, I had checked it out, and knew this would work easily and well.