I'm weary wi' cycling, and I fain would lie doon.

Last Tuesday's ride was fourteen miles, more or less. A fifteen-mile
round trip to Pierceton seemed just right for a gentle increase in
miles, and I dropped off some old bath towels at the animal shelter on
the way.

I forgot that the Chinworth Trail and the streets of Warsaw are built
on a flat old lake bed. The roads between here and Pierceton
undulate.

I arrived in Pierceton thinking "I've gone about as fur as I can go."
(Everything is up to date in Kansas City.)

Touring the antique shops and having a cup of chili at the Oddfellow
Cafe and Coffee helped, but not a lot.

I rode south on 13 to Hillcrest Cemetery -- noticing for the first
time that it actually is on the crest of a hill, if you call these
undulations hills -- and turned into the wind. Peak gust, along about
then, was 19 mph, and I don't think it was ever less than five.
Pierceton is higher than Winona Lake, but that doesn't mean that the
road was downhill! I think that most of the elevation gain comes when
climbing from Cherry Creek/Wyland Ditch to Pierceton Road. I walked
up the Heritage Trail on the way out.

In addition, Google maps says the route I took was actually 18.3
miles.

I came back from Tuesday's ride with at least half a dozen receipts,
and I'd spent a while in the park eating lunch. Today, I stopped only
to blow my nose. And got off only to walk a few hills. Not as many
as I *felt* like walking; sometimes I had to remind myself that I felt
the same way on the flat. I didn't use the big ring much.

Once I got all those layers of clothing off, I took an aspirin tablet
and lay down for an hour, but I'm still not fit to operate heavy
machinery.

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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/