Earlier this year I bought a new bike and vowed to ride 1000 miles this summer. Since then I’ve caught the bug and have spent this summer going for longer and more challenging rides each week. I may have to reconsider that 1000 mile goal. 
Unfortunately, I bumped my bike computer today and it reset itself so I’ve lost the season’s odometer. Upon the completion of today’s ride I believe it should be right around 660, so I’ll go with that and just try to track the accumulation. Since I need an excuse to put stuff here… well, I’ll try and write some articles to help track miles.
Today’s ride was a great one. After multiple misadventures, I finally managed to find a route from home up to Cherry Creek state park. I cheated… bought a map.
Cherry Creek is a bit of a big deal around here as it seems to be where a lot of the “big kids” go to train. I’ve driven up there a few times, but I’d rather ride than drive anytime.
I think the ride was right around 40 miles (+/- 2?) and I was averaging right around 18 mph for the first two thirds until the computer reset.
The red dot towards the bottom is (more or less) where I started and finished. Started by dropping a bit south to get on the trails and going north on them– that would be the more “windy” routes to the right. I did a clock-wise loop around the park and then came back more directly on roads with a small side-loop at the bottom. (that red dot is at a major intersection nearby. It is not my home).
There’s a very clever kid just south of the south park entrance (on Jordan, north of Arapahoe). How clever? He runs a little Gatorade and energy bar stand at the end of his driveway. Very smart, yes? I bet hundreds of bikes a day go by there on the weekend. I stopped there on my way back south for a Gatorade. Only a buck and it definitely hit the spot. Alas, this is also where I reset my bike computer.
I’ll work up a GPS mapping solution for the next run – I’ll definitely be doing this ride again. I used Gmaps Pedometer for the map. Works well but pretty tedious for a long route. Maybe I’ll revisit TrackMe again.
Today’s ride: 40 miles (est)
Summer total: 660 (est)
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Biking Fathers Day Weekend 2010 » Solo Musings says:
June 20, 2010 at 2:41 pm (UTC -7)
[...] up to Cherry Creek State Park. I haven’t created a map, but it was pretty similar to the run on this post from last summer. Perfect morning for it as it started out cool and overcast and finished nice and sunny. Total ride [...]