Training Log Archive: CleverSky

When they provide a perfectly good parking lot right at the concert venue, why in the world would you park all the way up at the train station in Mansfield? On the Schwinn with slick tires.

This is why. In The Dark, with a headlamp. After a brief skootching through the parking lot, and some riding on sidewalks, I hit the rail trail and was back at my car and on the highway and most of the way home while some of the hippies were probably still waiting in traffic at the Xfinity Center.

Highland St. loop. A little wobblier that usual, I think, had a few dismounts and gave up on the hill just before the house.

Low key ride in Willard Brook on a very warm evening. Early on, I ran over a stick that popped up and hit me in the right knee, like stepping on a rake. Still a little sore the next day. I intended to stay on large, easy trails, using the map in my head, but sometimes things don't turn out that way, and I ended up having to push the bike some. In avoiding some private-looking land, I went over an esker on a trail that dead-ended, but I headed off on some white woods riding, which is always fun. (You read that right, Willard Brook has woods that are open enough for off-trail mountain biking. In July.) After going over another esker, I got caught behind moutain laurel that was too thick to carry the bike through, though if I had realized how close I was to the trail (just south of the km 5 mark), I would have done it anyway. I had hoped the dry weather would have diminished the FDFs, but they were stil out there (though seemingly not too vicious).

Travel day back from Rome.

Walking around greater Rome with Nancy and Stephen, time a wild guess, distance from Nancy's phone (maybe includes some train distance?). Train to Ostia Antica, then walked around there for a while. Trail to Ostia Lido, and walked around until we found a publicly accessible beach, then back to the train station. From Circo Massimo to Colosseum to Piazza Venezia, where we caught a tram back to Trastevere, and wandered around there some.