brendan
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@baiskeli 49595 wrote:
The Trolley Pub is about to begin service! This would be the ultimate bike happy hour. There is NO group of people more qualified for this than us!
It’s going to run every day of the week, 4-5 times a day. A full group of 8-14 people costs $420. They also can do a “double” tour for up to 28 people, which I guess means half the group goes out at a time for two loops. They also take individual riders at $35 each. The route right now is a loop between Courthouse and Clarendon Metro stations on Wilson and Clarendon Blvds.
I’m conflicted.
This is AWESOME! They’ll be riding right by my apartment on Wilson Blvd. over and over again. YAY!
But…I’ve learned to be very careful on Wilson Blvd. later on Th/Fr/Sa nights. Too many drunks driving east against traffic flow.
Most of them get less than a block or so before correcting their error, and ACPD does their best, but…crossing the street can be a little bit like Frogger at certain times of the night. Hopefully they don’t run the bike too late into the evening.Brendan
@DaveK 49421 wrote:
Look for the spaghetti across 395 from Shirlington on this track…
Yay, Parkfairfax! The reason I couldn’t really get into biking as a kid had something to do with growing up on Mt. Eagle Pl.
Brendan
@creadinger 49224 wrote:
Oh I use a headband all summer long. It’s just that when it gets saturated it too will drip. Normally I can wait to wring it out at a natural stopping point, but not when it’s laced with sunscreen. Ouch!
To all you whities out there who get lots and lots of sun while out on the bike – it’s not a bad idea to see a dermatologist semi-regularly. Catching patches of irregular skin cells is WAY easier to deal with than having to treat actual skin cancer later.
Hear hear! Or rather, ouch my ear, my ear!
Got a punch surgically removed from the top of my left ear a week and a half ago to have a sun-related growth checked. Benign, luckily, this time. Gonna leave a scar, though.Doc said: you’re fair, so wear sunscreen March through October any day you go outside. So much for my 25% Sicilian heritage, I guess it’s no match for the Irish genes.
I’ve had pretty good luck with the high-SPF waterproof sports *spray*, though I spray it onto my hand and then rub it in (otherwise I end up breathing 50% of it in, cough cough, and wasting another 25% in the air). Less oily than the lotion, dries a bit faster too. Just make sure it dries *before* you start sweating, I think, to get full protection. I use the spray liberally and it doesn’t seem to get into my eyes very often wearing a headsweats headband if I wait until it dries first.
Brendan
