1 October 2011 Ride:Goals

On to Shreveport today, so I awoke at 4:45 hoping to get in at least 23 miles.  Normally, two hours would be plenty of time but I seemed to move rather sluggishly through the dark morning.  Darkness has that affect at times, and this morning pedaling by the light of a headlamp felt as if I was in a vacuum of sorts with no gauge of time or distance to measure. 

I did see two shooting stars, which always brings a smile.  The first one I caught out of the corner of my eye low in the northwest part of the sky.  The brightness of Jupiter,  it was still falling toward the horizon when I looked over.  The second one was a fast streak across the sky in front of me.

I was really looking forward to riding tomorrow morning but we just couldn't make my bike fit into the Miller's vehicle for the ride down to Shreveport; my kingdom for 6 more inches.  So, that will mean a night ride tomorrow when we get back.

On the drive down, I was talking about trying to reach 9,000 miles for the year and Rachel piped in that I really should try for 10,000 as that was a better sounding number.  Everyone else in the car agreed.  "Well. you get Mom to agree to let me devote all my time to biking, and I will."  Rachel insisted that I could still do it.  "It's only 36 something miles per day," she said.  Only.  Yes. Right.

Today's Ride:  1 hr 51mins   20.23 miles.  43 degrees   6,875.09