After a beautiful morning a "system" moved through beginning at about noon. It never actually rained but it was too windy for bicycling. Bicycling isn't much fun in the wind. I spent the first half of the ride battling upwind trying to find a place from which I could enjoy the second half of the ride. I did all of this amid a gathering expectation of rain.
It came out OK, I felt strong, I felt fast, it didn't actually rain.
Off again, on again, gone again.
The passing of the "system" can be traced through the flag photos I compiled on Flag Day.
The first one is right at the end of the block where I live.
I didn't want to get too far from home but eventually circled out through Falcon Heights. This one is across Snelling but before you get to Larpenteur.
This is a house in Saint Paul near Como Park where I was expecting to find something different. These people fly a flag every day but most often it is a Norwegian or a Finnish flag. Today they knew it was Flag Day and put out the stars and stripes.
I saw flags at all the places where there are always flags, on schools and on some commercial buildings but limited myself to flags on houses. I saw probably a couple of dozen and all but one was a US flag. The one exception was not of any country that I recognized, it was oddly and brightly colored, looking more like a freak flag than a national emblem. It was probably the flag of Tralfamadore.
Every bicyclist expects to confront some road construction during road construction season. I just seem to be running into more than my share this year. This is an important part of the stay close to home loop.
4 comments:
Flag Day -- good theme.
They've quite planting corn here -- too late in the season. All of the planting that is going on here now is soybeans. Or so I'm told.
You've ridden multiple days in a row.
Well . . .
It seems like it to me to but a review of the bike log (which is why we keep a bike log, so that it can be reviewed) shows off again, on again.
Last two days in a row, then a miss, then two days in a row, then a miss, then two days in a row (and then three days in a row OFF).
6 out of the last 8 but not yet 3 in a row since May 23, 24, and 25.
And just be way of noting, before May 23 I missed SIX days in a row because of rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, and rain (according to the log).
Interesting that you log your off days, and the reason why.
Given that you are feeling a solid level of bicycling specific fitness ("I feel strong, I feel fast") -- one could reasonably assume that rest days make you stronger. Of course, it is mid June.
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