Today’s sightings: Loads of Cardinals, 2 Box turtles , 4 sandhill cranes, 2 African Spurred Tortoise. The African Spurred Tortoise are also known as the African Spur Thigh Tortoise that live in the Sahara dessert. This tortoise is a mainland tortoise and according to the records, the oldest African Tortoise lived up to 56 years whereas they can live up to 80 years long! They are herbivores and they get their foods from the wild such as dried grass and leaves. They can grow to about a 100 pounds in weight. I met up with my friend Jim and his wife and after a stop at Panera for the usual we rode out to Wekiva Park. On the way home we stopped at the Sylvan Lake Park to watch his granddaughter play soccer. It was a great ride and I got home just as it started to rain.

Statistics for: 05/14/2011
Miles today: 49+
Mileage this month May: 442+
Mileage this year: 3413+
Percent of 2011 goal achieved: 48+%
Over/under riding days 2011 vs. 2010: +3
Over/under miles 2011 vs. 2010: +726 miles
Average miles per ride this year: 39+
Average miles per ride this month: 44+
Miles needed to hit my 2011 goal of 7,000: 3587, and an 8,000 mile year (best ever) is not out of reach.

Tomorrow will be a rest day.