145th ride

After Michigan's putrid first half against Akron, I allowed myself to be tempted by the gorgeous weather on this resplendent late summer/early fall day (brilliant unbroken sunshine, and a temperature in the mid sixties) to go out and do my first bike ride in a little over two weeks. The broken rib I experienced in my fall on August 29 is not yet 100%, but it was easily good enough for me to ride easily (and carefully). Michelle said that she was going to go ride, and I asked her if she'd like company. So we did a slow, easy 2.8 miles together through the subdivisions near our home—a route which is familiar to her—and then, when she felt she was done, I went back out and tacked on another 6.7 miles, doing twice a loop that kept me fairly near home, to give me a daily total of 9.5 miles in 55 minutes. Feels great to be back at it!

                    

I got home to find Michigan losing 24-21 to Akron with about 3 minutes left—but I was just in time to see them engineer a touchdown-scoring drive, and then barely hold off Akron from scoring to win it themselves.