2024 MILEAGE - 1684.9
Today, I began at 10:45, intending to ride the 13.6-mile loop route that I ride frequently. However, my plans had to change, and when I limped back into our driveway an hour and 45 minutes later (less than an hour of actual riding time), I was never so glad to see our home!
I saw two good friends during the ride. First was Doug Franklin, who I seem to see every few weeks (at least) during his long daily walk up from his home in Saline. I passed him both during the early part of the ride, and also as I was finishing it up. Less than three miles into the ride, I experienced a problem. How, and why, this happened I have absolutely no idea. But somehow my chain developed enough slack that it got tangled and wound around the front gear.
I took a look at it, but of course was unable to do a thing with it. Then I thought I might have to Uber ou to Michelle;'s school, to get our car, so that I could bring the trike back home. However, eventually I was able to reach my good friend Dan Cogan (a retired lawyer), Dan has bailed me out of problems on a number of previous occasions, both out on the road, and at home in my garage, helping me both with flat tires and with chain issues. I finally got him to teach me how to do the tires, and took notes on my phone, so i hope I'm OK with that now. But the chain is another thing entirely.
It didn't take him too long to straighten me out, but when I asked him what he did, hoping to learn something that would help me in the future, he merely grinned and shrugged. Once he got me fixed up, I could (and perhaps should) have resumed my original plan. But by that point I was sufficiently disconcerted that I changed my plans, and decided to do the shortest ride I ever allow myself, which I call the Silo Ridge loopugged
This gave me a ride of 6.3 miles in 56 minutes.
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