Training Log Archive: Nadim

From Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD, to 13th & C St. SW, Washington, D.C. I left work pretty close to 8am and it was 35 F. With my warm jacket on, I felt the air drag. I gradually caught and joined-up with some other riders but overall did more pulling. There was a hardly noticeable tailwind along the river. There were about 3 times during the ride when someone suddenly cut in front of me and I laid patches applying braking. One was a runner who was avoiding a pedestrian walking a dog on the inside corner and wrong side of the trail, another was a van which was pulling out from a parking spot at the very end of the CCT as I was going into Georgetown. On the later there was no maneuver room since a gate big enough for a single rider blocked my sides escapes, and another rider was right behind me. I was fortunate enough to see and react quickly enough for all of these.

From 13th & C St. SW, Washington, D.C., to Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD. The temperature was in the uppermost 50s F. I rode this mostly in the dark with a headlamp. I was by myself pretty much the whole way and the winds were calm.