2022 mileage: 2313.5
This has been a day of shrinking plans. Originally I had considered keeping the momentum of yesterday's big ride going, and leaving at 6:30 this morning (sunrise was at 6:41, and the temperature, already in the seventies, would have been favorable) and doing my 20-mile ride to Dexter (Baker Rd.).
However, I ended up deciding to spend a low-key morning composing instead. I don't regret that choice, as I made good progress on a choral setting I'm making of the poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers by nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson. By cutting out that long ride, I changed my plan to riding the 13.5-mile Platt/Packard Square early this afternoon.
I got started with this plan just fine. However, battling a significant wind (18 mph from the southwest), I was really struggling, and ended up deciding to cut my ride down still further, modifying the Platt/Packard Square into what I'm calling the Platt/Ellsworth Rectangle, for a slow ride of 11.9 miles in 1:35
The Relive video does not show quite that much mileage due to an unusual circumstance. On the way out, I stopped just after crossing State Rd. and paused the MapMyRide app so I could change my audio from the James Taylor to which I had been listening, and tune in the Tigers' game, which was just beginning. However, I forgot to restart the app for about a mile, and thus the mileage and time I reported above are slightly greater than those officially recorded and appearing in the video.
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