Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Wednesday, 1/5/2022

 2022 mileage: 176.5

Today I adopted the motto "Go big or go home" for my ride (even though, of course, I was actually staying home anyway to ride on our stationary bike), and rode while watching the big sprawling 1940 epic Gone With the Wind. It was a long ride, but glad to be inside, I just kept pushing, for my longest ride yet—51.7 miles in 3::49.

I have to say, too, that I tried to watch with understanding (but not sympathy) to see how Southern culture, centered around the monstrous wickedness of slavery, could possible be glorified and called "noble" ... but I was completely unable to understand this in any way whatsoever.

Trailer for Gone With the Wind

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