a little crazy

this morning's ride was a little crazy. it started at 4:00. it was 25 degrees with a 10mph northeast wind. it dropped to 23 degrees by the time i got home. it took 47 minutes to ride the first 8.5 miles into the gale. grrrr! the moon was full and beautiful. God did well. i was passed by 19 cars in the first 30 miles and 33 cars in the next seven. those seven miles, plus about 19 more, were not in my original plan for the morning. i was going to do a 42-mile loop. i strayed from the plan and rode into wellington. on the far side of wellington there were only 29 cars in the wal-mart parking lot. i thought, "it's three days until Christmas! where is everyone?" my headlight gave out after 3 hours and 47 minutes just after the sun came up. i'd run it on the middle setting for most of the ride and ticked it up to high when the sun started rising, so i'm pretty happy with its performance. i didn't ride straight home from wellington even though my toes and fingers were numb. i kept adding miles and minutes until i was over 5 hours. i still didn't get 70 miles. it only took me 4:30 to get that many miles saturday! oh, well! you win some. you lose some. the good news is this: all this craziness will make it possible, if the Lord is willing, to reach 8040 miles by friday. i only have 53.34 miles to go. steve s, my dailymile friend and challenger, and that oversized goal are going down!