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Neal’s Birthday Ride – Tuesday January 8th – 9:00 AM – Panera

 

 

Tuesday, January 8th is my birthday. A birthdate I share with pop music legends Elvis Presley and David Bowie, disgraced R & B star R. Kelly, Little Anthony of the Imperials, comedian Soupy Sales, burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, naturalist and the co-discoverer of evolution Alfred Russel Wallace, physicist Stephen Hawking, novelist Wilkie Collins, dictator Kim Jong-un, and radical pacifist A. J. Muste. I offer this brief list as evidence that astrology is a bunch of nonsense.

 

Given Chicago’s January weather, I don’t often get to have a birthday ride, but the weather looks to be not entirely unreasonable this year – mostly cloudy with a high of 42 degrees. It will be windy – 19 mph with occasional gusts of 40 mph. There is also a slight chance of rain, but not more than 30%.

 

I am not considering a traditional birthday ride where one does a mile for every year of age. A 72-mile January ride just seems excessive. I’m planning a 35-mile ride with lunch at Egg Harbor in Lake Forest. With my extra 9 miles to get to the start and back home again I should be able to stretch my personal miles to 44 (i. e. 72 kilometers).

 

You can find the route at: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/29140770. My pace will be a moderate 13 – 15 mph.

 

If the weather should be substantially worse than expected making it necessary to cancel the ride, I will post an announcement to the listserv before 8 AM. I also reserve the right to modify the ride’s distance and destination in response to the weather.

 

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