Sleepy Saturday

Summary Data
Total Time (h:m:s)	2:05:36	3:51 pace
Moving Time (h:m:s)	2:01:33	3:44 pace
Distance (mi )	32.54
Moving Speed (mph)	16.1 avg.	23.8 max.
Elevation Gain (ft)	+625 / -625
Avg. Heart Rate	121 bpm	Zone 2.5
Temperature (°F)	51.8°F avg.	51.8°F high
Wind Speed ( mph)	WNW 8.6 avg.	WNW 10.4 max.

Start time: 05:06:44 AM
Odometer: 1169.51

Recognized that Fall had actually arrived and wore some new Ibex wool knickers this morning which are now my favorite cycling 'shorts' ever. Laughed when I first heard about them---my image of wool shorts was something akin to green military surplus-wear. Far from it---very comfortable fit. Now if I could just find some full-finger gloves that I like (and that are not primarily MB).

Rode slowly this AM, not sure why it went that way, probably just sleepy. The path was wet, but not treacherous. The two repair sections are unpleasant. The first, on the North side of Belmont Harbor routes bikes onto a narrow pedestrian area with too many blind curves. At best, one can maintain 17-18 mph if one likes living dangerously. The second is the extraordinarily poorly marked detour from Lawrence to Foster which routes one through underpasses favored by Chicago's homeless---meaning that one has to roll around sleeping bags, hoping that one does not roll over someone sleeping across the path. Don't get me wrong, both of these sections need repair and I will be thankful next summer when these sections are wider, but for now, they make for an unpleasant AM ride North.

Had to spend a few minutes just past North Avenue getting the seat adjusted again. The carbon seat post on the Trek 1500 seems to slide down all too often and since I overtightened the bolt and stripped it two weeks ago, I have been using a pretty functional, but ultimately flawed workaround devised by the owner of Wheels and Things (Tati was closed when I had time to deal with the stripped bolt before heading off to Florida). I have never had my bike worked on at Wheels and seeing both his 'tools' and his methods, I never will. First, he did not have a fairly standard size bolt (tried to use an old, rusty, hardware store hex bolt) and then pulled out a power drill to drill out the seat post collar to accept a different sized bolt. He should have just told me that he could not fix it instead of nearly trashing the collar in his misplaced zeal. Anyway, I need to take the bike to Tati or try to get a new collar soon---and a longer bolt would be nice so that I could torque it a bit more.