127th ride

I rode to work again this morning, and then, after work, I rode what I texted to Michelle would be a medium ride—neither long, like when I ride to Saline (13.7), nor as short as going directly home (3.4 miles). Instead, I chose a 5.6-mile route that was enough to give me a taste of exercise, but not enough to push me very hard. Perhaps a more accurate label would be "medium short." (Or, in musical terms, mezzo forte—medium soft.) Anyway, this gave me 7.8 miles for the day, in 44 minutes—a bit short of what I like to do on any given day.

I was glad to be able to ride at all, however, since rain filled much of the day. In fact, there was a steady, medium-hard rain throughout my ride to work at 7:30, and it left me quite thoroughly drenched. Then the rain was ceaseless throughout the morning and early afternoon, and in fact past noon it was coming down "in buckets," as one of my colleagues put it. However, by 3:00 it had stopped, and by the time I left at a little before 4:00, even a little sun was coming through.

AFTERWORD

My good friend Tom Brown (a science teacher, not primarily a musician) points out my error above, when I said mezzo forte was medium soft; in reality, mezzo forte is medium loud, and I should have said mezzo piano. As I told him, I can only plead a temporary brain fart.