I hope you said "Howdy, mister!" to John Wayne out Rio Bravo way. Grin. Sounds like a great ride ... pilgrim.
I attempted to make it out of town, but I was too late and the throngs of tourists in town for the 10 day art show and their perfume and laundry detergent and other scented accoutrements were already out and creating a wall of scent I was too wimpy to make it past. I was pushing it to try a ride, though hopeful it would help. Might have if it wasn't tourist season. First time that's happened. So I rode the quarter mile with an overage speed of yea much out and three yeas back. With abandon, Patrick On Saturday, June 14, 2014 2:04:14 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > > 87F, winds SW 17 gusts to 35, took the gofast from my house just west of > the Rio Grande recreation path south-south-west-ish to Rio Bravo and > return. Determined not to over-exert, took it easy in the hooks, rode ssw, > turning the 75" gear at a sub 80 rpm cadence, though the wind was at that > mid-day transition period where it will flip 90 or even 180 degrees > momentarily before resuming its s-s-westerly pattern, and so there were > brief periods when cadence quickly increased. I stopped at Rio Bravo, took > a long drink, wetted my contacts, and then headed back with the wind mostly > behind me -- actually, on the port side, on a broad reach*, though > occasionally traveling northward up to directly ahead. Cadence varied from > 70 to 100 as the wind shifted. > > Though this premier westside (ie, west of the Rio Grande) trail is never > as crowded as, say, the paved path along the beach at Santa Monica, it was > quite populated today, mostly with cyclists, though I saw few roadies -- > most were your average Joe and Jill, like me. Do roadies avoid wind? Or do > they just get up and ride earlier in the day? Perhaps they were all doing > the Tramway climb. > > I stopped at Albertson's to buy a 24 oz Foster's Lager, making weak jokes > with the clerk and passers by about keeping hydrated. (Aside: A Grolsch > with ceramic cap will fit perfectly into a standard bottle cage.) > > I was surprised (and, I must admit, pleased) to see that Cyclometer > recorded an average, clock-running-the-entire-time, start to Albertson's, > of 17.02 mph including stop. My informal benchmark is 18+ mph on a calm day > without undue discomfort,over the same route, clock running. (My benchmarks > are modest.) > > Photo shows that the bike exists. > > Patrick "more words and hubbub per mile" Moore in windy, dry, "Fire Danger > Very High Today" westside ABQ, NM. > > [image: Inline image 1] > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis > > ************************************* > * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to > never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from > it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* > * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to > look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind > it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into > somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your > daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is > all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was > any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, > because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where > in your time and your body can they be?* > * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. > "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where > Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of > you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
