Back in the saddle - finally !

Went out for my first ride today. It's been since July 22nd that I've been on the bike on the road. I needed just a bit more than five miles to get over 1,000 for the year. This ride was a gentle flat ride that was done at an easy spin. It was 5.7 miles and put me at 1,001 miles for the year. Not the 4,000+ I was planning on at the beginning of the year but considering how the crash interrupted riding this year it's just good to be back out on the road.

Just five miles but it did wear me out more than I would have anticipated. Starting the ride seemed easy enough. Balance was fine, steering was a bit shaky. Needed to focus on where I wanted to go or would go off course a bit, couldn't look left/right much more than briefly or that would steer the bike unintentionally. Steering was fine once I recognized that. In the early part of the ride I was thinking I might get at least 100 miles in December if the roads stay clear. By the time I was back I was thinking it will take time to build up to a 20 mile ride and I'll be doing well to get in 50 miles more before the end of the year.

In any case I'm riding again. All I have to do now is keep doing it.

A new souvenier and progress

Went back to the crash site a while ago and found some debris from the crash. This is the right lens from my riding glasses. From the marks on the lens I'm guessing two impacts, at least, to the lens. The first would be the scratches going more top to bottom. The second would be those going more right to left. How do I know? I don't, still don't remember anything. However the left to right scratches seem to go over the top to bottom scratches so they must have come second.

Considering how gouged it is I have no idea how my face didn't get scratched up. Nose, brow, cheek, chin, not a mark on them. A little bit on the right of the head where the temple from the glasses would have been but nothing else.

I've been back to work for three weeks now. Very limited duty. Two hours a day the first week. Three a day the second and it was supposed to be four a day the third. Wasn't quite up to it so did the third week at three hours a day. Next week will be four a day. Feel much better at the end of this week than felt at the end of last week. I'm pretty sure I'll make it through next week okay. May be wanting Friday to come a little early. But that'll be okay. That happened sometimes before I crashed.

Have been spending some time on my new trainer. Feels okay. Have done two twenty minute spins on it now. I'm thinking I'll be able to get out for a short ride before the end of November.

I'm thinking with the spinning on the trainer and exercises from therapy the ride will be, relatively, easy. The part that will really need some testing is balance. Will need to ride in the yard a bit to see how that goes. Between now and the end of the year I only need five miles to be over 1,000 miles. About a quarter of what I was anticipating around the time of the crash but at least it's four digits.