Me, Mr. Mundane

Date: June 2 Monday
Mileage: 30 (LHT)
June mileage: 50
Year to date: 632

Date: June 3 Tuesday
Mileage: 14 (LHT)
June mileage: 64
Year to date: 646

My riding the last couple days has been decidedly mundane compared to more ambitious efforts, ones which I will expound later. Both Monday and Tuesday my riding took me no further than the usual urban routes that my commuting has comprised nigh these many years. So far I'm doing pretty nicely with my summer goal- doing as many locals sans auto as possible. This goal included my baseball/ice cream trip from Saturday, and yesterday's roam-around. Monday the boys and I had a day of doing almost nothing to speak of in the morning. Their time with their grandfather ('pawpaw') on Sat/Sun yielded them 2 wastes of time: Mario Galaxy (Wii) and Need for Speed Carbon (PS2). A parental failing I've suffered is the one that has allowed my fine children to play lots of video games. I know, in my heart, that wasting copious amounts of time playing this garbage isn't good for the overall being, but damn they're fun to waste time with. In my past I've played a fair amount of finite list of titles, Zelda-Windwaker, the various gamecube Metroids, Island Adventure from the old super Nintendo platform. Those hours playing could've been spent saving Africa from hunger, right? Alas, on a rainy day, or during a late, late night, it's awfully fun escapism.

I digress.

Monday's ride took place after our evening meal. I felt the instantaneous need to hit the road, so away I went on the LHT. I felt pretty good too, so I went west. Granted, creeping dusk and nighttime wasn't optimal, but I feel comfortable on that route. I made good time westward, but on the return I just ran out of gas. Having left at 9ish, I ended up having the good wife- and my mother whom she had called- worried. I pulled in about 11.30. Oops.

Tuesday brought me another post-supper, post-meal ride. 'L' had baseball practice, so I rode the 2m to there. From there, I rode the rest of the way from the Highlands, up Baxter, and across to Crescent Hill to Clifton's Pizza. After a salad, some cheese sticks and a slice or so I was father full, but the road awaited and I crawled, and I mean at a 7-10mph crawl, crawled home on the LHT to finish up a 14m round-trip errand commute. I have to pull some big mileage coming up here, but errand miles are good miles, especially at $4.00/gallon.