Wednesday night I was still feeling stiffness in my left shin, so I opted out of the Team-D track training for some more rest, ice, advil, ice, rest, advil.

It felt much better this morning (it seems to start up later in the day), but I decided to do a bike ride instead, heading west towards Camelback Mountain, through the shabby neighborhoods of Paradise Valley (that is sarcasm- this is mansion-ville, in PV, the median house price is an order of magnitude larger than elsewhere in town).

I rode, winding on MacDonald north of the big Camel, and down to Lincoln and Tatum, stopping at the Barry Goldwater memorial park, something I had driven past many times, but never stopped at.

That’s a closeup of the hat in hand on Barry’s statue- he is facing southwest looking towards the hilltop home he lived in just a mile from this spot.

Lots of traffic on Lincoln, so I took as many back streets as possible. Again, I’ve not done much biking in the last 18 months, and it feels like I am hitting muscles never used! But it was a great way to spend an hour and ten minutes this morning.

I might do more biking as x-training even when the leg feels better. I like the feeling of going a bit faster than I can just via my feet!

A day of rest tomorrow, and then it is time to test the legs with the Payson Rim Country Challenge 1/2 Marathon.

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