8/3

I had an excellent weekend. This weekend was my parents' 5oth wedding anniversary. They had a big party and we all had a wonderful time. Saturday morning we did our group ride around Perry, Oh. (Where the nuclear power plant is located). It was a great ride. We went 40 miles, which i managed to turn into 43. It was a rather flat ride and had some beautiful scenery especially on the last residential road that followed the lake. We also passed what seemed to be county wide garage sale day. I couldn't believe how many garage sales there were. The whole town of Perry had a garage sale that day. It seems I can't have a bike ride without some sort of issue. This weekend was the fact that I wrote the directions down wrong and took a 3 mile detour. Then once back on course I hit some railroad tracks too fast and broke a spoke in my wheel. In the past I've always blamed mechanical issues on the fact that my bike is so old but this one was definitely on me. I have a brand new back wheel so the spoke definitely didn't break because it was old. But overall it was a good ride. I managed to go 43 miles in 2 hours and 35 minutes. That's averaging 17.7 MPH to those of you keeping track. Not bad considering I got lost and had to find my way.