Hello, MD peeps. I haven't been posting much, just thought I'd pop in for a bit while waiting for a phone conference to start.
Had a bit of a relapse with my boo-boo hamstring, but not as bad as last time, so I've been getting back on the bike more. I had a lovely ride Saturday to Annapolis. It was supposed to my "birthday years-in-miles ride"
but I messed up the planning calculations somehow; I bought lunch at the market in Annapolis and was going to head to Thomas Point Park to eat it, but I was already very close to 25 miles. ?? (I was shooting for *exactly* 48 for the round trip!
) So I stopped outside of Quiet Waters Park to eat; a bit of a detour on the way home, and I ended up with 49.8. Oh, well, close enough! A little breezy but gorgeous weather; I stopped for a while to check out the Maryland World War II Memorial on Route 450, which I've always just blown past on my way down (or back up) the hill.
I'm hemming and hawing about what to do Thursday and Friday -- I'd very much like to go to the happy hour on Thursday, but due to late meetings tomorrow, I would have to drive to work, or I'll never get to Kooper's in time to be "happy."
That's what I'll probably end up doing; if so, I'll be on the lookout for Charlie and whoever else is going!
Friday . . . we've always done our own "Bike To Work" day thing here at the Death Star, with just us. We typically meet at Arundel Mills Mall and ride in together, do a few laps around the main complex. This year, we've been asked to sign up as participants on the Baltimore Metropolitan Council site, I guess so we can be officially counted, and although we're a "satellite" spot (not an official rally point) I hear someone's bringing us maps and T-shirts and whatnot, which is kind of cool.
I do appreciate the "show the flag" value of BTW day, but it's a little aggravating in that I end up getting to work about an hour later than I normally would. Also, I typically don't ride in on Fridays, and that's been especially the case this summer, because I play softball in Columbia after work on Fridays, and normally just change here at work and head over to the fields with all my paraphernalia.
On the other hand . . . my games this Friday are late (first one isn't until 8:15), so I should have plenty of time to get home, get my junk, and get back to Columbia. And we're having a big ceremony at work Friday; parking, which is always a mess here, is going to be an even bigger hairball than normal. In that regard, it would be a *most excellent* day for two skinny wheels!
