2023 Mileage: 2876.0
For the second straight day, I had to settle for a shorter ride than I had originally intended. After yesterday's ride, I charged my auxiliary battery, but then I forgot to move it to the table by the door where I generally keep it.
Then when I went to ride today, it was a case of "out of sight, out of mind" ... and when I got out to the trike, having already extricated it from our garage, I was not inclined either to let sit out unattended while I ran back in the condo for the battery, or (frankly) to make such a trip. And since my phone would not have had enough battery charge to complete the ride I had intended (the 13.6-mile square which is probably my most frequent ride), I decided to shorten it and just ride a round trip to Marsh Park.
I would not want to be overly dramatic and make it sound like a matter of life and death to be without phone battery. For the most part it would merely be an inconvenience. But I have so often been beset by mechanical issues that I could not overcome, and had to either text a friend for assistance, or contact Uber or Michelle for a ride, that I never want to ride without access to my phone if possible (darned pesky thing, this being unable to speak).
This gave me a ride of 10.1 miles in 1:29.
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