With the knee still in recovery, I’ve crossed from running today to biking.
Today might have been a bit early or not enough coffee…. my wife has been biking to work as well, so when she suggested we ride together, I was thinking of following her route to work in downtown Scottsdale and then following my normal route to Tempe. So this morning at 6 I asked, “If we bike, what time to you need to leave?” and she said, “I’ll be ready in 15 minutes”. That’s earlier than I needed but I got all assembled. Then she wondered why I had all my gear on as she was tihnking of us doing some loops around the neighborhood… we were in different route spaces or frames of mind.
So we did a loop up to the canal and back to our house, so I got a few more clicks than a commute, and then I rode the normal 11 miles to work. Not bad going in, the knee was yummy with Advil.
Riding home was a different story! First there was a hair of a headwind. Then, it’s been so long since I dealt with darkness, so I had to get in the defensive mindset of baeing invisible to drivers, despite my headlamp, reflectors,a nd blinking tail lamp… it calls for extra concentration. Then about 3 miles in, I felt my blood sugar bottom out, so I had to make a pit stop for a few glucose tablets.
As is, I got home with about 20 minutes to shower and get ready for the history class we are taking together at Scottsdale Comunity College. So today was something like:
A long day. It did feel good to get some miles in, even if they are not running. Maybe, the new blog name is “I Miss Running”?
name: Alan Levine
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