@tarwheel Awesome accomplishment. I hope in many more years to reach that total; at which point you will be near 100,000 miles.

Yeah we all have to careful on the wet leaves these days. I slid my back wheel along a half an inch high lip with leaves. It is never a problem but it gave me something to keep thinking about. I have to be careful at a park near my house; the trees are dropping horse chestnuts and leaves like peletons drop me. And I is a bit treacherous on the turn bumping and crunching over them.

I saw some rabbits munching on the side of the road yesterday, that was pleasant. I had another car park in the bike lane. I had an awesome time up the hill, not any PRs but as fast as traffic the whole way. I kept catching up with the same group of cars (I noticed since one was a Bentley and the other was a mail truck spewing its exhaust and i feared he would right hook me everytime). Then I think I had a guy in a shiny Escapade yell at me for filtering up to make a left turn at a poorly timed light.

A nice rainy commute this morning. Uneventful, I used the bike lane to bypass an accident on the bridge. I enjoy riding in the rain.

EDIT: it was a shiny Escalade not escapade, fault of auto correct.