In Which School Starts with Several Rides

MMU students on first ride of the year.

Rain is in the forecast for Friday, so today’s rides probably were the final ones of the work week—the first week of school.

The week began with a bit of an adventure—an MMU Bike Club ride Sunday. Two bikes were checked out and two others were unfit to ride, so we ended up short on bicycles. The plan was to ride to Dairy Queen in Hiawatha, but on the way there, the back axel of another bike snapped. Fortunately, the club president was with another student in a car. The lame bike was locked to a fence, and the student rider got to DQ in an auto.

It was still a fun ride, if way more eventful than such rides usually are.

On Monday, I rode my regular work bike, but noticed the rear tire is so worn that the color layer under the rubber is showing—so that bike is now awaiting a new tire before I ride it again.

The rest of the week, I rode either my road bike or mountain bike. And there were many nice rides. My wife and I started taking evening rides post supper, which has been fun—we rode 7 miles Wednesday and 6 miles Thursday.

C Avenue pond as I ride home Wednesday evening.

 And on Thursday, I was taking care of a 5-year-old grandson who starts kindergarten this week. The rest of the school began today, but his first day is tomorrow. He was game for a bike ride to a park, so we used an attached half-bike, rode to several parks and to campus today.

It was an almost cool, fall-like week. My biking miles are inevitably going down, as RAGBRAI training is over and school takes more of my times. So it was nice to have some good biking during this first week of school.

I've removed attached seat, as grandson will ride home with his grandmother in van. But I  has some fun rides with a grandson, and an evening ride, on the mountain bike, here tied up at the Warde Hall bike rack.