109th ride

I rode to work again this morning, and, with our Weight Watchers' weigh-in tonight, I wanted to do a long ride after work, and so went down to Saline again before coming back up to Ann Arbor, a ride that Map My Ride measures at 12.1 miles. This gave me a daily total of 14.3 miles, in 1 hour 29 minutes.

The ride back north from Saline to Ann Arbor, on Maple Road, features quite a lot of hill climbing, and after I had finished one daunting stretch (coming up to Ellsworth Rd.), I had to contend with a red light rather than being able to keep going, and the big hill climb had evidently taken a lot out of me. I put down my right leg, but nevertheless topped over (into the grass, away from the road). The driver beside me rolled down his window and cried out in alarm, "Are you OK?" I clambered to my feet as quickly as I good, and gave him a big smile and a thumbs-up. He looked dubious, but nevertheless said, with doubt in his voice, "Well, OK"—and slowly pulled away. At that point I only had a short ride left anyway, and about 7 minutes later I was pulling into our garage.