Went out this morning for another bike ride. Not as many hills on this one, and I did pretty well. I have this one listed at 4.5 miles, and it took me 24:38 (8:14:00 to 8:38:38) which is 11.69 mph. I think that one of my distances must be wrong, because it definitely felt like I was faster this morning. Maybe soon I will get an odometer.

Out of Madeira’s 120 streets, I have now completely ridden 22 (Iuka, Rita, Rathon, Dee, Britten, Berwood, Jethve, Homart, Locust, Wesley, Juler Ct., Maxfield, Longfield, Camargo Woods Dr., Camargo Woods Ct., Indian Trail, Camargo Greene, Naomi, Marvin, Dones, Steigler) as well as part of 6 others (Sanoma, Thomas, Miami, Camargo, Juler Ave, Osceola)

I have been enjoying using my bike signals. Though I have to say every time I make a right turn signal I feel like I’m about to baptize someone :-). I did get to stick it to a car today. I was coming down Thomas, and it was downhill so I was flying down in top gear. As I was about to turn left to go up Sanoma, I looked back and there was a car behind me. Obviously he wanted to pass me, but I put on my left signal and zoomed up the hill. That was nice because I was able to use my head of steam to get me most of the way up the hill. Some of you may recall that this intersection was the site of my failed attempts to come home last December when it snowed like nobody’s business. I didn’t blog about it because lo, I didn’t have one at that time.

In other news, the Red Hot Death came from behind as I slept and won 5-4 in 10 innings. Nice to have that happen instead of the reverse (I’m winning when I go to bed and wake up and have lost), which seems to always happen.