I went for a bike ride to tune up my engine. A little recognition is in order:

• To those in the cars that saw me and gave me room: Thank you! Some of you gave me so much room that I couldn’t have hit you if I tried. I’m not complaining. :-)
• To the inventor of bike lanes: Thank you! If everyone saw bikes, I would continue to ride country roads like I used to. Nowadays, I don’t like to gamble my life that way.
• To the inventor of cycling shorts: Thank you!¹When I put them on this morning, they were so cool, I had to check to make sure they had no holes. Black riding shorts — genius!
• To the sadistic inventor of the average speed mode on my cycle computer: “Thank you!” You’ve turned every bike ride into a race against myself. Specifically, the uphill climbs become races against the average speed. Ouch!

Ride summary:

Update. Jamison and I rode to the cousins’ twice today. I got another 14.66 miles, for a daily total of 31.6 miles. :-)

Day 10 on the bike. :-)

• 1
  When I put them on this morning, they were so cool, I had to check to make sure they had no holes.
• 2
  The user guide calls this the “automatic timer mode,” but I prefer “actual time moving.”
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  This was 15.0 when I stopped at Starbucks. I have no idea why it was 14.8 when I started again. Hmph!
• 4
  “What goes up, must come down. Spinning wheel, got to go round.” Those “hills” on the other sides of creeks are preceded by wonderful downhills. ‘Course, I tend to spend more time going up the hill than down, but that’s another story…