[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Twenty Years Ago

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Twenty Years Ago
http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1136522481.shtml


   1-5-86 Sunday. I=E2m back on track with my forty-mile Sundays. The
   sprocket of my bike broke on 8 December, which meant that my streak of
   twenty-eight consecutive rides went down the drain. I missed 15
   December because the bike was down, and then spent the next two
   Sundays (22 and 29 December) in Michigan or on my way from Michigan to
   Tucson. But this is the first Sunday of 1986, and already I=E2m back on
   track. I need to average twenty-five miles per Sunday during 1986 to
   break my 1985 mileage record. I=E2m bound and determined to do it. [I
   rode 2,808.1 miles in 1986=E2more than double my 1985 total of 1,324.8
   miles. That=E2s an average of 54 miles per week.]

   The weather was not the best today, but then, what should I expect?
   It=E2s early January. In Michigan, or most any other place, I wouldn=E2t
   be riding at all. The temperature reached sixty-seven degrees
   [Fahrenheit] this afternoon and I felt a handful of raindrops as I
   pedalled [sic; should be =E2pedaled=E2]. The skies were overcast for most
   of the day, except when I neared the apartment. It was extremely windy
   on the way home from the cave [Colossal Cave]. Nonetheless, I had a
   good day, from a statistical point of view. My gross average speed was
   13.11 miles per hour (three hours, three minutes of riding) and my top
   speed for the day was thirty-three miles per hour. I love the new
   odometer. The new sprocket also performed admirably. I detected no
   looseness or play, even when I pushed hard on the pedals. Here=E2s to a
   good year of riding!