There's been some rain wandering into and out of the greater Memphis area. The nice thing is it's kept the Fahrenheit temperature in the 70s for most of the week. But the forecast is showing warmer days ahead. We might hit 90 degrees for the first time this year in the middle of the week.
I had a good bike ride Friday afternoon. I did my usual route out the Greater Memphis Greenline, around the lake in Shelby Farms, and back home via the Greenline. Yes, I do this circuit a lot, and the reason is it's the only route easily accessible from my house that's almost entirely protected from motor vehicle traffic. To get to any other protected bike trails around here, I would have to ride a long way on city streets or put my bike on the car and drive someplace.
The best thing about Friday is that it was one of those days when I didn’t so much as crank the engine of my car. Besides riding my bike, I stuck around home and did some shop work. I like days like that, when life feels nicely uncomplicated.
Some pretty heavy rain was moving in right as I was getting out of bed yesterday morning. It came down for several hours and was moving out by the time I was heading down to the river. The temperature was a pleasant 68 degrees. I paddled for 80 minutes at a variety of paces. There wasn’t much barge traffic around, and it was probably just as well for me to get a break from chasing wakes.
The cloud cover cleared out overnight, and it was a lovely sunny 75 degrees when I went downtown this morning. Once again the river was free of barge traffic, so I spent my 60 minutes in the boat working on good rotation. When I re-entered the harbor I did a good long surge to the Hernando DeSoto Bridge.
Both yesterday and today there was significantly less wood floating down the river. The level is dropping slowly now after cresting during the week, and that should give all the debris a chance to move out.
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