122nd ride

This morning I rode to work in a heavy, heavy fog—making me extremely glad for my blinking headlight and taillight. I made it without incident, although after just a few hundred feet my glasses were not usable due to the moisture covering them. I had to bring them down on my nose and peer over the top. As I am exceptionally nearsighted, this would have been unworkable if I were driving a car—but for a bicycle, and particularly on a short route with which I'm very familiar, it did not pose a problem.

Then after work, I had hoped to do a long (13.8 miles) ride to the northeast part of Ann Arbor, and then come back down and end up at Weight Watchers at 6:00 p.m. for our weekly meeting. But another long workday (a good thing, of course!) forced me to change those plans, so I ended up riding a route of "only" 9.6 miles—but at a fast clip (for me), doing about 5-minute miles. Then after the meeting, I rode home, to give me a daily total of 12.7 miles in 1 hour 6 minutes.