July 2019

Ride: 07/31/19

Strava logged this as a ride. 0.17 miles in 23 minutes. That’s not a ride. That’s sitting on a bike in one place, or maybe rolling it to the end of the driveway and back while doing something else entirely. The data says what it says: barely moved, heart rate hovering around 107, the kind of numbers that mean “alive…

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Ride: Getting carb cleaner

The mower was acting up — sputtering, flooding, refusing to stay running. Needed carb cleaner. Could’ve driven. Got on the bike instead. Two and a half miles round trip to the auto parts store, July in Pensacola, which means the air is soup and your shirt is a liability by the time you’re halfway there. Seventeen minutes of pedaling through…

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