Coffeeneuring #1 and #2
Oct. 18th, 2020 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bikingandbakingI absolutely forgot it was coffeeneuring season until I saw Strava posts from a couple friends, too late last weekend to go off and do my own ride.
So I figured I'd do at least one this weekend, while also heading down to city hall to drop off my mail-in ballot and save the USPS the trouble.
The only hiccup being the part where I grabbed an envelope of word puzzles from the National Puzzlers League instead of my ballot. Usually, this would be exactly the right thing to bring coffeeneuring, as I could linger over my coffee in a lovely little shop, doing puzzles. Not so much in the "only three people in the store at a time era". I still got my coffee (and pastry; I am definitely a coffee drinker but not a coffee connoisseur and the pastries are the draw at coffeehouses to me).
Coffeeneuring #1: Modern American(o)
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/4207477120
1. Where I went: Modern Pastry, 20 Salem Street in downtown Medford
2. When: Saturday, October 17th, at around noon.
3. What I drank: an Americano, since they had just finished a pot of drip and I didn't want to make them make a new one after the morning rush. (Pastry: sfogliatelle)
4. This was kind of the ride of mainly failing at everything except acquiring coffee (and the last sfogliatelle in the case), since my photo (below) has my hand in it, I forgot my ballot, and my Brompton was refusing to shift, but it was really nice out and felt good to be riding outdoors rather than on the trainer.
5. Total distance: ~3.6 miles, but Strava didn't start registering quite at the start, for some reason. The 3.1 it recorded are still enough.
Coffeeneuring #2: Cinnamon Swing (State)
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/4211458273
1. Where I went: Mystic Coffee Roasters, 30 Riverside Ave in downtown Medford
2. When: Sunday, October 18th, at around 8:30
3. What I drank: a "Cinnamon Swing" latte. (Pastry: spinach croissant)
4. This time I successfully remembered my ballot! Also, Strava seems to be picking up on "ballot" in ride descriptions and giving people little red-white-and-blue routes on the activity feed, which is very cute. I did try to get the rear hub shifting, but mostly kept making it worse, so it would only shift between the top and bottom gears and not into the middle. Alas! I'll put it in the stand later.
5. Total distance, 3.8 miles, measured correctly this time.
So I figured I'd do at least one this weekend, while also heading down to city hall to drop off my mail-in ballot and save the USPS the trouble.
The only hiccup being the part where I grabbed an envelope of word puzzles from the National Puzzlers League instead of my ballot. Usually, this would be exactly the right thing to bring coffeeneuring, as I could linger over my coffee in a lovely little shop, doing puzzles. Not so much in the "only three people in the store at a time era". I still got my coffee (and pastry; I am definitely a coffee drinker but not a coffee connoisseur and the pastries are the draw at coffeehouses to me).
Coffeeneuring #1: Modern American(o)
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/4207477120
1. Where I went: Modern Pastry, 20 Salem Street in downtown Medford
2. When: Saturday, October 17th, at around noon.
3. What I drank: an Americano, since they had just finished a pot of drip and I didn't want to make them make a new one after the morning rush. (Pastry: sfogliatelle)
4. This was kind of the ride of mainly failing at everything except acquiring coffee (and the last sfogliatelle in the case), since my photo (below) has my hand in it, I forgot my ballot, and my Brompton was refusing to shift, but it was really nice out and felt good to be riding outdoors rather than on the trainer.
5. Total distance: ~3.6 miles, but Strava didn't start registering quite at the start, for some reason. The 3.1 it recorded are still enough.
Coffeeneuring #2: Cinnamon Swing (State)
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/4211458273
1. Where I went: Mystic Coffee Roasters, 30 Riverside Ave in downtown Medford
2. When: Sunday, October 18th, at around 8:30
3. What I drank: a "Cinnamon Swing" latte. (Pastry: spinach croissant)
4. This time I successfully remembered my ballot! Also, Strava seems to be picking up on "ballot" in ride descriptions and giving people little red-white-and-blue routes on the activity feed, which is very cute. I did try to get the rear hub shifting, but mostly kept making it worse, so it would only shift between the top and bottom gears and not into the middle. Alas! I'll put it in the stand later.
5. Total distance, 3.8 miles, measured correctly this time.
