The Excitement of Friday

My day began slowly since I stayed up too late the night before.  I work up about 10:30 and then it got fun.

I decided I was going to take a bike ride.  This ride was not going to be like anything I'd done before though.  It wasn't just a ride through the neighborhood.  I rode the city, and county.

That's the route and elevation changes in the route.

Here's some of the specs from the ride.
Trip Distance: 39.66 mi.
Ride time: 2hr. 2min. 50sec.
Avg Speed: 19.2mph
Max Speed: 33.3mph
As I began the ride I realized that the trip out would be tougher than the return trip.  There was a steady head wind blowing in my face as I rode out Lynch and Oak Hill Roads.  The hills beginning at Mill lasted until I got off Boonville-New Harmony Road.  Those climbs almost killed my average that I was trying to keep above 19mph for the whole ride.  It sayed up until I got onto Hwy 65 going north.  I finally climbed back over the 19mph mark on my way down the hill on Oak Hill leading to the light at Hwy 57.  From that point on I was almost able to keep my speed above 21mph, at least until I got back into the neighborhood.  I sprinted as best I could to finish the ride and keep my average speed as high as possible.

That was just the begining of my Friday excitement though.

I had just gotten cooled off, not showered or anything so I was still covered in the salt of sweat, and my mom told me to get dressed, we were going to TJ Maxx.  She needed me to go with her to return some things that she had bought this past weekend with my discount since I work at the Distribution Center.  I threw some shorts on over my biking shorts.  These biking shorts I'm talking about are the skin-tight shorts that have the padding in them because the seat of the bike I ride is almost nothing.

Pretty minimal.  Very uncomfortable.

The shorts got very uncomortable is what I'm trying to get at here.

We got our business done at TJ Maxx and we were leaving the parking lot.  It's the lot with Target, Dicks, Coldstone, and Moe's in it.  But we were coming from the TJ Maxx area, obviously.  There is a certain interscetion in that parking lot that allows traffic coming from Burkhardt to proceed through the intersection and any traffic leaving the complex must stop.  We were the traffic leaving the complex.  My mom had a slight brain fart and began rolling into the intersection after coming to a complete stop at the sign.  There was a massive Ford F150 entering the complex and they were proceeding through the intersection until they saw my mom begin rolling at which time they slammed on their brakes, allowing the Freestar behind them to rear end them.  There was very minimal damage to either vehicle but both seemed to think that my mom was at fault for "not stopping and being in the middle of the intersection."  They both began yelling at her in the middle of this intersection while traffic kept moving around our van and their two cars that were still parked where the accident happened.  Mom called 911 and reported the accident since she had nothing to do with it and was just a bystander.  We waited for the cops to get there and take some information and get our side of the story then we were gone without a hitch.  Some people are stupid but we have to live with them.

This whole time I had not eaten anything since I got off the bike.  I was starving and my mom was starving so the wreck just made us mad more than anything.  We got over it though when we got to Taco Tiera.  Pretty good tacos  and such there.

That's just about it for my Friday afternoon.  Rest of the weekend to come later.