On Friday, July 10, I hit the hills of Oakland and Berkeley. I had promised myself that I will climb more hills now, since I made my goal of 3000 miles before July 15. I rode 31.84 miles that morning before work and it was just as grueling and spectacular as I had recalled, although the decent is not exactly comfortable, since any small pebble, pothole, other detritus can throw one off the bike when speeding down the hill at such speeds. I think I hit 32 miles per hour but think about the smallness of the tires and how easily one could become "dethroned" by some little debris. I have set a new goal for myself now of 5000 miles by March 24, 2010. It breaks down to having to ride 3 days a week, 18 miles each day, until that date. I suppose 5000 miles in 2 years is not all that spectacular, unless you are like I was before Mar 24, 2008: not involved, not riding, not goal-oriented toward something like that.
The garden is in a state of gentle summer gladness, with lilium 'Black Beauty' starting to bloom, angraecum sesquipedale and cycnoches chlorochilon in full scented bloom. angraecum dideri has a flower right now as well and the coelogyne barbata has 2 flower spikes. It had bloomed nicely in the spring, so I am surprised by the newest spikes. dendrochilum magnum has several new growths, so it might also make some flowers for me. My cyrtopodium polyphyllum has 2 new growths, which means I may have 2 flower spikes come next spring, instead of just one. I have such a great garden!!!!
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