61st ride of 2019 - Wednesday, 7-31-2019

2019 mileage: 2576.6

It seems like FOREVER since I've been able to ride—we were on vacation beginning July 19, and didn't get home until late Sunday night. We spent a few days iin London, and then went from there on a weeklong cruise to Norway.




 Then I also had to miss the last two days, because of a medical procedure yesterday for which I had to prep Monday. So it was great to get back to it today.

 Because of the long layoff, I figured I'd better break back in gradually, and planned to just do a round trip to Marsh Park today. But I couldn't even quite do that, as the trail was blocked off near the park -- they're FINALLY completing the trail through to Platt Rd.


So I turned around and augmented my ride with loops on Interfirst Dr., Stonebridge, and, at the end, east along Ellsworth to Oak Valley and home that way. So this gave me a ride of 14.6 miles, in 1:39, which I did mid-afternoon as ithe temperature remained tolerable (74° when I began a little before 3:00, and 76° when I finished).

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