Boring first video

 "If you can cut yourself - your mind - free of what other people do and say, of what you've said or done, of the things that you're afraid will happen, the impositions of the body that contains you and the breath within, and what the whirling chaos sweeps in from outside, so that the mind is freed from fate, brought to clarity, and lives life on its own recognizance - doing what's right, accepting what happens, and speaking the truth - If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past - can make yourself 'a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness', and concentrate on living what can be lived (meaning the present)... then you can spend the time you have left in tranquility.  And in kindness,.  And at peace with the spirit within you." - Marcus Aurelius

And that, my friends, is what my English teachers would call a run-on sentence.  But it's sound philosophy!

 I said I'd post some video clips of the first Road Bike ride.  Here are three brief clips of me huffing and puffing.  It's kinda boring to watch, but I was having a good time.  I had the camera aimed a bit low on the last clip.