126th ride

I was happy to be able to go out for an early morning Sunday ride to Saline again this week, before church. And although I left at 6:30, it was plenty light enough to ride safely—but I threw on my flashing headlight anyway, just for good measure. Also, the construction at State and Ellsworth has now proceeded far enough to allow me to go that way, which makes the ride more convenient.

The gmaps-pedometer measures this route at about 12.48 miles, and my new odometer on my bike shows it at 12.4, so I was glad to see this near-agreement, and I rode it this morning in 1 hour 7 minutes, with a happy heart, looking forward to a visit from my in-laws today, with whom I am greatly blessed.

ADDITIONAL THOUGHT

One more thought has come to me regarding Thursday's fall. When the paramedics were first tending to me, unsure if I might have incurred a head injury, they asked me what date it was. I quickly wrote down, "Thurs. 8/8/13" but then almost immediately grinned to myself and thought, "I should have written down some crazy date way off." Later, though, I realized how spectacularly inappropriate that would have been at the time.