monogodo

Well, it was actually the first ride, other than minor commuting, since September 2000.

It was a beautiful day (69°) when I woke up at 10am, so I thought I'd get the Eddy down from the wall, wipe it down, run through the gears, air the tires, and head on out. I finally headed out about noon.

I rode down Elm Street to the Texas School Book Depository, turned left, went south a block, then headed back east up Main Street. At Griffin a cop made me turn north because of a helicopter doing construction work. I ended up criss-crossing downtown both east-west and north-south before I finally headed east up Commerce Street and into Deep Ellum. I rode through Deep Ellum, almost to Fair Park, then came back down Elm Street. In all it came to 7.03 miles, not bad for being extremely out of shape.

Ride stats:

• 7.03 miles
• 44.46 minutes
• 17.4 mph max
• 9.4 mph average

I need to set my cyclometer to automatically start & stop the timer so that sitting at stoplights doesn't affect the average speed.

I feel good about this ride. I want to get out more often, and start to lose more weight (I've lost 7# just from changing to a healthier (macrobiotic) diet alone). Ideally, I'd like to lose another 30-40#, but would be happy with 20#.