Commute in... the big rubber band on the tennis ball I'd found and tossed in the bags attacked my wheel so I had to pick the pieces out and even apply that same "shove it backwards" shoe principle to get the last bits out so the wheel would roll again. I must say, I'm 'way more sensitive to things coming in contact with my spokes since getting tossed The real warm fuzzy was that not one but two people who knew me just happened to be going by!
Fought the wind to get down to my LBS at lunch to here the "so much more I should tell you" about marking routes for bike rides. And there was! Down to the last detail about keeping the paint off the car, your shoes... I brought my alphasmart (word processor) and took notes and we made jokes and everything was, in every sense of the word, cool. Got my derailleur adjusted and now I know which thingy to turn *and* it doesn't jump in the middle chain ring (which is what caused my foot to slide off the pedal and the shoe to get sucked up into the wheel).
Rode back coasting at 16 mph.
Beat the storms home... in fact, the're not here *yet* so I'm thinkin' I should have just blown around sme more!
19 miles... 21 to go to get to 2000.
Hoping to get good miles in tomorrow.