My Recumbent Days

I was planning on a 10 mile ride, but kids turned the road signs and the dummy I am followed them. I ended up with close to 18 miles of hills and horrible roads.

Today is the first time I ventured out of my development, and the roads are real bad, but the ride was great.

Well about four days ago I decided to change my chain and go with a lighter KMC X9SL chain in gold finish. I ordered it from overseas as the price was very reasonable and it only took a week to get. during this period I also decided to hand wash my home, which is safer than Power washing but much more work. So it means washing each piece of siding with Murphy's Oil Soap doing a small section at a time starting from the bottom and rinsing each section. The results are much better than power washing. The problem with this is that it requires a huge amount of squatting and bending, which did a job on my legs, I did the front side and back in two days and still have one side. My legs are Charlie horse and very painful. I decided that I would install the chain and adjust it then ride. Well the plan was great, the chain job went easy about an hour installing and adjusting and lubing. The problem was the wind here is so strong I had to really use my legs and they hurt like hell. Next ...

I rode ten miles with horrible head winds, I think I should have taken up parasailing! Still I had a great ride.