137th ride

I rode to work again this morning, and then, following a shorter workday than I like, I decided to come directly home in order to catch the last half of the Tigers' rubber game against the Minnesota Twins (Minnesota won the first game, and Detroit won last night). I have so far ridden 5.5 miles today, in 29 minutes, but intend to go out and do a ride to Saline following the conclusion of the game.

LATER

This afternoon's Tigers contest was a dispiriting affair. After going down 6-2 early behind the guy who is nominally our ace pitcher, Justin Verlander (he won both the league's Most Valuable Player award and the Cy Young Award, given to the league's best pitcher, in 2011—and this is a very rare combination—but this year he has been maddeningly inconsistent), we battled back gamely to tie the game at 6 on a big 3-run homer in the 6th inning. Then, however, we surrendered the decisive run in the 8th inning, and lost 7-6. And this loss was all the more galling because it came to our divisional foes, the Minnesota Twins, and I went to college in Minnesota and lived there for many years, still having many good friends who are avid Twins fans.

Despite this, though, I carried through my plans to ride following the game. A series of minor technical glitches delayed my start, so I chose a slightly shorter route than I had originally intended—but still got in 7.7 miles, to give me a daily total of 13.2 miles in 1 hour and 6 minutes, thus making the daily goal of 10 miles that I like to shoot for.