Training Log Archive: britty327

Meeting D at 29th Parallel for coffee over lunch. Old Bridge is officially a death wish for bikes, and I have to take it for at least a couple miles to get pretty much anywhere in Fairfax. I was riding the sidewalk (since I just got clipped riding with traffic earlier in the month) when an SUV whipped out of a parking lot without looking. I skidded the tires, but then she slowed down so I thought she saw me. Nope. Accelerated and straight up T-boned me. I went over the bars and somehow landed on my feet. Scrambled to get my bike, which was unscathed except for scratches, out of the roadway. Left knee is bruised and swollen, but that is all. I did a systems check, gave and received apologies, and moved on to safer roadways. Fuck NoVa traffic.

C • Geez, I'm glad that you're ... 5

Thankfully much less interesting ride home. Took the long way via Burke and Mercer Lakes and CCT. Saw a mean looking gray snake by the water who went for a swim and some big trout.

LH with Dee and the dogs. Likely the last LH hike of the spring/summer. Saw our first lone star ticks of the year and pulled 20 or so deer and LS ticks off of us and the dogs.

Because Sony said I had to start running longer. Rainy technical goodness along BROT trail from the marina to Hemlock and back.

C • Tell Sony 3

Event: QOC Clopper Lake
 

Spent most of the day at the Epic finish. Dog hike with Dee and Dust.

Event: Shenandoah Epic 24-hour AR
 

SRSP from Downriver with a solid crash into some downed trees on a surprise 90 degree turn.

Home trail

From the house via home trail to meet Dee at LH