Coasting to the Right

I can't believe the weekend is already over. It feels like it's Friday evening. Today's ride was like a dream, though. I decided to try coasting. So, I left my house with three objectives:
1) I wanted to be back home in about an hour.
2) I would only make right turns.
3) I would come home with something interesting.
Right turns worked out well. I had to allow myself to turn around upon hitting dead ends, and turn left in order to get home, but besides that, to the left it was! Doing this lead me onto some local, but strange new roads. On one of these roads I found my something interesting: bamboo. I put it in my pouch and road around with it. It still seemed healthy when I got home, so I potted it. Hopefully it'll root! And, thankfully, I got home around one hour from when I left, letting me see how my mother cooks fish cakes. Delicious!

~Casmira

Participants today: Casmira

Miles Traveled: 12

Final Destination: Coasting

Total this Summer: 217.32

Coasting Records

I wasn't expecting to ride today. Originally I was going to wake up early and go to the archery range my father shoots at, and take a look around. The way he describes it seems beautiful. As per usual, I slept too late for all the fun, though. When he got back, he brought up the conversation we'd had over dinner last night about mountain versus road bikes, what tour bikes are, and the advantages of recumbent bikes. Because he only uses his recumbent bikes, we have a few bikes who've gone unused chilling out in the garage. They're all guy's bikes, but I'm manly enough to pull it off. Bwahahaha! So, the tally of nice new stuff today came up to: a nice new road bike, sweet cleats that click in super easy, and an outstanding ride up to the shrine to test it all out! I got whacked in the face with how nice this new bike is for me. I had no trouble finding the cleats (my other pair hadn't become "second nature" quite yet...I was still struggling with them.), I beet my speed record by getting up to a whopping 24 MPH on flat ground, and last but definitely not least, I tripled my coasting length record coming down the gradual hill back home from the shrine. I used to have to stop at the development, but a mix of favorable winds, putting more weight on the pedals, and using the curvature of the road let me actually make the turn onto the next road and keep going without a single rotation of the pedals until we hit the rather steep uphill that lurks white a ways from the shrine. Next time, I shall measure. Glee! Oh! And I hit 200 miles in total today. Go me!

~Casmira

Participants today: Casmira-- It was a father, daughter ride!

Miles Traveled: 12.6

Final Destination: Lady of Our Island, round trip

Total this Summer: 205.32