Driving and Taking pictures – BionicOldGuy

Tuesday I rode with my team to the Southeast of Morgan Hill. I had truly dangerous good fortune with residences. I mounted a rear flat however may just no longer to find the explanation. Then the substitute tube went flat after a few miles. That is on a Schwalbe marathon plus tire, which has nearly 12 mm of a flat coverage belt. After scrutinizing the tire I in the end discovered and got rid of a staple over 15 mm lengthy that had labored throughout the belt. Thankfully I had a 2nd spare tube and was once adequate after that. It was once excellent to have buddies round to stay me corporate however just a little embarrassing to be conserving up the gang.

Wednesday I did my upper-body power exercise early within the morning. After that I went with my pal Ted, a retired police officer, to a capturing vary to take a look at my hand with pistols. I had handiest shot a pistol a couple of occasions in my existence, 54 years in the past once I joined a membership at West Level that used 22 caliber goal pistols. I used to be lovely dangerous at it so gave up after a few weeks. This time I attempted out Ted’s 45 caliber and 9 mm automatics and 38 cal revolver. Together with his training I did a lot better than prior to now however was once scattering the pictures reasonably than getting tight groupings. Ted mentioned this was once brought about through expecting the shot and flinching just a little. He mentioned to squeeze slowly and let the shot marvel me. That helped relatively. It rings a bell in my memory of Eugen Herrigel’s dialogue about liberating the arrow in Zen And The Artwork of Archery. Total, this was once truly tiring! It’s a nasty concept to do it at the similar day you do an higher physique exercise.

Tomorrow I did an extended onerous journey with some durations. Then the day past I did an extended simple journey to the Northeast of Morgan Hill which was once truly stress-free and enjoyable, averaging about 20 mph with my help. I realized with a tailwind I may just exceed 20 mph which makes the help kick off, an effective way to preserve the battery.

Tuesday’s journey is posted on Strava right here, Thursday’s right here, The day before today’s right here.