I thought I was biking solo. But wherever I looked, there he was, my polar opposite.
I waved left, he waved right. I shunned the sun. He reveled in it. I welcomed cloud. He stayed away. But such was cycling with my shadow along the Cross New Hampshire Adventure Trail.
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