Have a great (and safe) holiday weekend everyone!

[JimF22003]

You too!

I’ve got a twofer this weekend. Just about ready to head out for this one:

http://abrtcycling.com/events/annapolis-bay-country-century

and tomorrow is:

http://milepostzero.homestead.com/TDV.html

Monday I’m sleeping in

[Dirt]

Should be a good weekend for riding. Take care y’all.

[skreaminquadz]

Have fun on that trail CCrew! Enjoy riding the great DC area trails/roads. I’ll have to wait until Monday, but looking forward to it!!

[Greenbelt]

Here’s Greenbelt’s annual Labor Day diversion — a four day carnival. Lots of great rides nearby if you’re in the area.

[video=vimeo;28575683]http://vimeo.com/28575683[/video]

[acc]

I’ve been playing with my new cross-bike, Schnitzel. Had a great break-in ride on Saturday doing a loop from Vienna, down to the National Airport and back through Arlington. It was great because I did not fall off. Today I spent a lot of time eating grass and rolling around in the grass tangled in the wreckage as I learned to dismount while moving fairly fast, then running alongside Schnitzel followed by hoisting him and jump/hop/running. Ended the session by picking the grass out of my shoes. But looking on the bright side, at least I was not picking the grass out of my teeth or picking my teeth up out of the grass. On the downside, playing these games by myself in a public park was a little conspicuous.

Happy cyclocross trails,
ann

[CCrew]

@acc 7770 wrote:

I’ve been playing with my new cross-bike, Schnitzel.

Now you know that proper decorum says you have to post a pic, right?

[CCrew]

@CCrew 7754 wrote:

We’re off to do this ride tomorrow, new trail for us.

http://www.traillink.com/trail/ghost-town-trail.aspx

As a followup, this is one trail that is on the “can definitely miss” list :p
It’s actually 32 miles instead of the advertised 36, as they count a 4mi spur that goes absolutely nowhere. But come to think of it the trail itself goes pretty much nowhere. It’s 32 miles – all downhill in one direction, and all uphill in the other. We saved the uphill for the return trip. No real facilities or even civilization short of a B&B at about the 20 mi marker. No place to get a bottle of water except for 2 places we found. At 5pm it was 94 degrees on the trail. Fortunately we were fairly well equipped, but we were wondering if 4 bottles of water between us were going to be enough – just barely as it worked out.

Trail goes through a lot of turn of the century mining areas, and huge amounts of sulfur runoff even this many years later have the river beside the trail stained orange and a dead zone. Was kind of weird to hear no birds chirping and short of two groundhogs we saw no wildlife at all. Trail was in good shape, and given the country it went through I imagine is pretty at fall foliage time, but I’ll pass on going to see it then.

Trail ends at a really nice park – but that park is virtually in the middle of nowhere. Nearest real town 10 miles away. Plaques everywhere about it was made possible by John Murtha, who is PA’s pork barrel politician so it’s our tax dollars at work I guess.

[acc]

I’d put up pics but don’t know how. I’m doing well to figure out how to work a heart rate monitor and turn the Garmin system on…
Gee CCrew, that ride sounds like so much fun, I’d love to try it but I’m afraid I’d run out of water and die.

I finished off the weekend with a nice calm ride up to Ashburn and back on Spartacus my road bike. I love him because unlike my rotten mountain bike, Free Willy, he doesn’t bite me or throw me. And unlike Schnitzel, I don’t wind up rolling around in the grass attached to almost 20 pounds of metal. I can ride Spartacus all day and not end up black and blue. I love my road bike. I was so wrong for straying. And riding in a torrential downpour was challenging but still beats going to work.

Happy trails,
ann

[CCrew]

Ya know acc, couple more days of this rain and the cyclocross courses will be in their correct condition

[Dirt]

Looks like a great ride.

We did a long ride in Loudoun, Montgomery, Arlington Counties and a dip into DC. It was nice to break my legs off. I haven’t done a ride like that in a while.

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