Ta-da!
It’s been an amazing November. For the season, the weather has been very good. It’s made for some excellent rides. You wouldn’t know it was Chirstmas shopping season.
Today Yellow Bike and I went out for a nice little 30-miler along the lake shore and out through Greece. It was one of those days where the old motor was just singing along, moving free and easy right from the first pedal stoke.
It kept up all the way through and coming home on University, I felt like riding right past my place and maybe putting in another 20 or 25 miles out south and east of the city.
The only fly in the ointment is I was already over the river when I remembered that the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge was swung shut for vehicular traffic. I could have added Webster to my Irondequoit, City and Greece shoreline tour. Oh well.
The ta-da part in all of this is that November is my fourth-highest mileage month of the year, after July, June and May, respectively. With today’s ride we broke past August’s miles, and I’m less than 44 miles short of May. (!)
With tomorrow’s forecast of cold, and wind and rain, I’m not even going to try to beat May. But I have my monthly bill-paying errands to run, so the Portland and I will be out in the rain getting in some end-of-the-month miles in during the afternoon after a morning of laundry and housecleaning.
December seems poised to start with more seasonally-appropriate weather. Snow is forecast from Tuesday right through the coming weekend. The ground is still too warm for it to stick, but I’ve got the studded snow tires up from the basement, waiting in the closet.
Jingle bells!
