Rhapsodies

Well my morning biking regime has been going fairly well. For the most part I think I hit a plateau keeping it under 4o minutes but rarely going bellow my average of 38 minutes. To make matters worse there are the occasional extenuating circumstance like being slowed down by heavy wind or traffic or stopped by traffic lights most notably my personal nemesis 65th and Ravenna which is right next to the park and ride and has busy traffic as early as 6:15.

But today was especially frustrating. It was raining (which by itself was unpleasant) and I had no intention of trying to break any speed records on treacherous roads and while I was doing all right the need to watch where I was going and large puddles on the road were definitely slowing me down.

What was the most frustrating was what the rain was doing to my iPhone.  A wet screen is always a nuisance but the way it was effecting the Runkeeper app was especially annoying. It was telling me my progress about every minute (sometimes every thirty seconds) until it finally paused at the home stretch. I managed to get it going again in a way that wouldn’t screw up my time too much but that was only the beginning of things. When I finished the loop Runkeeper was congratulating me on my new record of 33 minutes. This I knew was nonsense as according to Runkeeper I’d been ridding 33 minutes for the last five minutes. Reluctantly I deleted the workout. Tempting as keeping it would be I have no desire for my progress to be regarded as irrelevant because Runkeeper was holding something impossible (or at least bloody difficult) over my head. It would be like when it said I burned 666 calories on Halloween.