Sculpin

Today Josh and I made it to the farmers market on the tandem and back. Hooray! That’s around five miles round trip, through slightly busier streets and more difficult intersections than I’ve been becoming used to. More wind, too, which sometimes made communication tricky. Packing organic vegetables from the farmers market into Oyster Buckets on the bicycle, I felt that I was surely qualifying for some sort of Granola Scouts merit badge.

I had to take a breather on the way back to let my heart rate settle back down. Oh well. No hurry, and I got to hang out with a very nice dog. (There are a few, I guess.) After the ride, I was tired, but not quite tired enough to conk out fully.

I’m starting to think that I should look into some additional exercises for bikers. I’ve been pretty sore in the lumbar lately — like somebody whacked me with a rubber mallet the size of a frying pan. (I see many Epsom salt baths in my near future.) I’ve been flaking on my home practice these last few months. But pain avoidance is a pretty good motivator.

[Unless something particularly noteworthy happens, the rest of the week’s bike notes will be in comments in this post.]

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