74th ride of 2020 - Saturday, 6/20/2020
2020 mileage: 2294.8
Since is the day of maximum daylight in the year, I wanted to get a good, early start -- and I think 5:20 qualifies! 😎
It was a day when flexibility and adaptability to shifting plans were necessary, however. I set off intending to ride to Matthei Botanical Gardens, and got about 2/3 of the way fine ... but after traveling the Gallup Park Pathway to its eastern end at Dixboro Rd., I found further progress impossible.
A locked fence prevented proceeding (though a pack of teens on bikes following me ignored it, and went around it).
So not seeing the mentioned detour, I decided to head for a loop around St. Joseph Hospital, and climbed the sizable hill up from that point. But when I got to the top, I found the marked detour, and also recognized where I was and that I was, in fact, quite close to the trail that goes up to Matthei. So I went that way, turned around, and started back towards home.
Rather than going back the way I came, however, through Gallup Park, I made a change on the fly, and decided to do that loop around St. Joe and then head home. This went fine, and then I made one more change, since it was a morning full of them anyway. I decided to take a slight shortcut on the last part of the ride, and came west along Packard and Eisenhower rather than returning south all the way to Textile Rd. and then coming back through Marsh Park, the way I had gone out.
This gave me a total ride of 30.4 miles in 3:44, as I got slower and slower the further I went. At my early start it was 60° (with clear skies), and that climbed to s gentle 81° by the time I finished.
Since is the day of maximum daylight in the year, I wanted to get a good, early start -- and I think 5:20 qualifies! 😎
It was a day when flexibility and adaptability to shifting plans were necessary, however. I set off intending to ride to Matthei Botanical Gardens, and got about 2/3 of the way fine ... but after traveling the Gallup Park Pathway to its eastern end at Dixboro Rd., I found further progress impossible.
A locked fence prevented proceeding (though a pack of teens on bikes following me ignored it, and went around it).
So not seeing the mentioned detour, I decided to head for a loop around St. Joseph Hospital, and climbed the sizable hill up from that point. But when I got to the top, I found the marked detour, and also recognized where I was and that I was, in fact, quite close to the trail that goes up to Matthei. So I went that way, turned around, and started back towards home.
Rather than going back the way I came, however, through Gallup Park, I made a change on the fly, and decided to do that loop around St. Joe and then head home. This went fine, and then I made one more change, since it was a morning full of them anyway. I decided to take a slight shortcut on the last part of the ride, and came west along Packard and Eisenhower rather than returning south all the way to Textile Rd. and then coming back through Marsh Park, the way I had gone out.
This gave me a total ride of 30.4 miles in 3:44, as I got slower and slower the further I went. At my early start it was 60° (with clear skies), and that climbed to s gentle 81° by the time I finished.
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