I might have a couple more rides next week but I have time to write right now and don't think anything substantial will happen.

Coming out of the bad covid spike last winter I was eager to get back riding and I really needed to get back to the office for some things I can do there and not at home. Our older kid was already in a sort of locked-down version of first grade in the morning and an afternoon program through the city. There is a daycare nearby where he had gone before, and now we sent in our twins. This enabled me to ride, sometimes. In the summer his program went full time. But when school started it ended, and so my routine became a morning affair - deliver kids, ride to office, ride back to daycare, retrieve kids. My wife had bariatric surgery in late summer that required her to have a crash diet and I joined her, and lost maybe as much as twenty pounds by around October. On the return leg I was making it uphill quicker on more direct routes on my single speed. I was feeling pretty good about things.

Starting in September things have been hard. Kiddo did ok in half time half full classroom covid-lockdown first grade, but has not done well at all in full time full classroom second grade, which we anticipated, and it has caused a lot of interruptions. We did not expect the boy twin to start having similar trouble in daycare, but he has. In October I got breakthrough Delta, recovery was a few weeks and I fell off the diet wagon hard. In November I had a stupid crash and broke my thumb, and in December, last week was a bad one for the kid and this week, we finally got a lot of rain. So fitness, which is mostly my goal here, has really fallen off.

I also have not been able to ride with my kids as much as before. The boy twin still isn't riding though he surely has the coordination, and that makes it a little awkward, and opportunities don't seem as frequent as a year ago. The girl twin is riding great, she is going to be a terror... kiddo never really got beyond basic pedaling in three years of practice and I'm not asking much of him.

Might make it to 800 miles this year. Kiddo is starting a program in a smaller class in another school, where he will be bussed five miles so I no longer need to drive him half a mile. The twins start kindergarten in August. Here's to healing thumbs in 2022.