I had wanted to ride three round trips to Marsh Park this morning in order to help make room for turkey and pie -- but then, during my ride, I remembered a task to which I had committed, that needed to be done before we leave for my brother's house late this morning. So I figured I'd better cut it short and just do two round trips, and I finished these consecutive round trips (18 miles) in 2:13.
Hoping to do the longer ride, I set out at 6:30 in pitch-black conditions (my trusty headlight flashing away), and we were severely fogged in and cold (38°). But at least all precipitation was blessedly absent! My glasses were soon useless (prismatic) due to the high humidity, but this posed no difficulty, riding on that trail that prohibits motorized vehicles. I saw a few other early denizens of the trail ... but not many. By the time I began the second round trip, daylight was beginning to filter in, the sky having changed to a dirty shade of blue gray.
I should explain for those "late to the party" something I have explained previously. Michelle requests that I do all my riding off-road. And it is my great good fortune that a nice asphalt trail exists quite near us. It begins about a mile from our home, and I reach it by sidewalks. Called the Lohr-Textile Greenway, it runs a couple of miles south, along the east side of Lohr Rd., and then turns east and parallels Textile Rd., crossing over to the other side of it at one point, and employing three nicely constructed boardwalks to cross wetlands, running out to a park east of State Rd. If I do a single round trip to the park, finishing off with a lap around our condo complex, it's just 10 miles. Most days I try to do multiple round trips, but additional ones are only 8 miles, because I turn around at Ellsworth Rd. rather than going all the way home (in order to avoid some busy crossings, and to avoid climbing some significant hills).
Following is a collage I put together in June 2015:
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