Sunday Jul 22 |
 | Bike - 'bent (Bolton Notch) 43:00 [1]9.1 km (4:44 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Afternoon bike ride on the Hop River trail with Hayden. Nice and cool in the woods, quite a few different folks out... Went to shady glen afterwards for ice cream - Chocolate Malt..mmmmmm |
Saturday Jul 21 |
| Bike - 'bent (AM Ride) 2:43:00 [3]58.2 km (2:48 / km) +510m 2:41 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Early morning ride - Tolland > Rockville via SLR, Rockville to Bolton via Rockville Spur & Valley Falls Rail trail, Bolton to Manchester back on rail trail, Manchester > Vernon > South Windsor > Ellington > Tolland via various backroads and then up around the lake.
Felt good the whole way even coming back up the ridge toward the end - spun away slowly in lowest gears and drank/ate/checked GPS while spinning uphill. The bent can sometimes be a little squirrelly at really low speeds so good to get used to riding it one handed on the slow ascents.
Legs feeling depleted toward the end again - really need to carry something more than plain water.
AOWN - Almost broadsided a deer on the Rockville Spur trail - moving along at probably 25-30 kph and it just bounded up over the trail right in front of me missing the front wheel by maybe 3 or 4 meters. Definitely spiked the adrenaline.. |
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