Month: October 2021

Sunday, October 10th 2021…It’s never too late to learn…

So yesterday I went on a 33mi ride with some friends, and then went to “Scarecrow Fest” and walked around outside. My whoop reported my daily strain as 18.0 out of 20 which for me was a royal “ass-kicking”. Thank god that I am taking it easy today. After I slept for 8.5 hrs, my recovery was at 46% this morning. As “Dirty Harry” said: ‘A man’s got to know his limitations…’. What I learned is that after a 30mi bike ride, I shouldn’t walk for 3hrs out in the sun at a craft fair later in the day. I should only do a 15mi ride in the morning- max. I need to keep perspective.

Here is a debut of some of my iPhone pix. It was a beautiful morning yesterday.

Cal-Sag_Quarry
The quarry at the West end of Cal-Sag Trail
The baby bridge that comprises the logo of the "Cal-Sag Trail"
The baby bridge that comprises the logo of the “Cal-Sag Trail”
The group, minus Vikash… who slept in… because he was out with his MBA cronies playing darts…
Tinley Creek North to Cal-Sag Trail

-Rat

Friday, October 8th 2021… Still going strong…hopefully…

Can’t believe that we are still riding into October. Saturday (wow, that is tomorrow) we are riding to the quarry and back – roughly 33mi. I had to chuckle this morning since the sun was just barely up and it was already quarter to 8 (7:45am). Sunrise this morning was at 6:58am, it will be the same for tomorrow. So we will be riding in the dark tomorrow almost all the way to the quarry. I think we have ridden 2 days this week so far – Monday 10/4 and Tuesday 10/5. Monday morning was really dark and there was just a sliver of moon in the Eastern sky around 5am.

This has also been a stressful week at work (it always is before vacation) since i had to get so many things completed before I am out of there. In addition, a couple of weeks ago, I got a new iPhone 13Pro. That was actually a mixed blessing since it came with a new set of problems that was unanticipated – the elimination of all my fingerprint associations with a change to facial recognition. All my QR codes via Microsoft Authentication app were garbage. All those needed to be rebuilt.

-Rat