Riding With The Cranes

Sandhill Cranes on their springtime migration over the Prairie State

For my first significant bike ride of 2020, feeling a little rusty, I chose the route I like to call the Hour Glass. A roughly ten-mile ride that maps out in a figure 8 shape that typically takes me about an hour to ride in my typical average 10mph speed. This one took me about 75 minutes at an average speed just under 7mph, feeling gassed on the home stretch and pretty sore on the return back home. But it was the good kind of sore.