The
last time I was out on my bike was three weeks ago.
On
Friday of last week it finally was cool enough in the morning to consider a
bike ride. It turned out to be a perfect cool morning. However, I had an eye
doctor appointment at 10:30, so riding was not going to happen.
And
along came Saturday. Cool morning with cloudy skies. That I like. I can’t take
much sun or heat. I was going to ride the Canal pathway, but, decided instead
to do errands…mostly go buy a birthday card for my oldest son who turns 50 on
Monday (that’s tomorrow as I write this).
After
a 3.5-mile ride I arrive at the card store in a fine mist. That’s ok. The card
is bought and signed and I head on over to my son’s house to deliver it. I know
he’s not home. He’s at the Rhode Island shore the weekend. I let my self into
his house and put the card on the table.
While
I’m there, I water some of his plants on the porch; use the bathroom; and turn
on the TV to the Weather Channel to catch the weather radar. Well, that didn’t
look promising. The mist I had been feeling was going to turn into light to
moderate rain in about five minutes and last about an hour or so. I decided I
wasn’t going to hang around for an hour.
I
had not gone far when it started to rain…as I knew it would. When it started
coming down a little harder I had a flashback to the time my daughter, Kathy,
and I rode the Erie Canal Pathway in 2008 when I was 72. The day we rode from
Rome, NY to Little Falls (50 miles) we rode in torrential rain for the last 30
miles. Soaked to the skin. But this was not the Erie Canal trip and my time in
the rain would only be 20 minutes or so…so suck it up!
Even
with the rain it felt good to be out on the road.
And
now, today, we will be starting another heat wave. This one looks like it will
last all week. How long will it be this time before I get to ride again?
Hopefully I won’t have any appointments scheduled when that day finally does
arrive.
NOTE:
Should you have an interest in reading all about the Erie Canal adventure, you
can go to my on-line journal at: http://eriecanaladventure.blogspot.com.
