Happy Birthday, Jody
Happy Birthday, Jody. You’d be 28 today. If I could, I’d get you a cake with candles a mile long.
Actually, I kind of did. Since you can’t eat cake and I don’t eat cake, I thought about what I could do instead. A mile long. How about a mile of asphalt, Jo? And, instead of putting them on your birthday cake, which neither of us can eat, I thought I’d go ahead and add them to my mileage chart in your memory. To wit:
28.16 mi in 1:37:36 (17.3 mph avg / 29.5 mph max)
I decided that I couldn’t do your 28 birthday miles at a half-assed pace, so I went ahead and destroyed my 2004 average speed record for you. I also broke my 2004 single-ride distance record. And I’m happy to tell you that your birthday miles have put my May chart over 300 miles.
I hope this makes up for the fact that I was too wimpy and broke to do your big ride this year. The year after next, we’ll try and throw you a really nice 30th birthday party in Alamogordo.