131st ride

After riding to work again this morning, and then a fairly full workday, I rode to church to do my weekly work of preparing Sunday's projections, and then did a long ride home. Setting off from church, I prayed kind of a silly prayer: "OK, Lord, if I've reached Scio Church and Wagner and have at least 6 miles on my odometer for the day, I'll turn on Wagner and head home by the shorter route. But if I haven't reached 6 miles yet, please give me the discipline to keep going all the way out to Zeeb, and then up to Jackson and back to Wagner." When I reached Scio Church and Wagner, my odometer read 5.8—so, even though I was eager to get home, I pushed resolutely onward, and once I reached home, I saw that I had ridden 17.6 miles today, in 1 hour and 38 minutes.