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Sun, 31 Jul 2011

Ride starting Sun Jul 31 17:24:11 2011

37.41 km 122730.85 feet 23.24 mi 8190.00 seconds 136.50 minutes 2.27 hours 10.22 mi/hr

Just another beautiful ride on just another beautiful night in northern New York.

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Fri, 29 Jul 2011

Ride starting Sat Jul 30 11:10:46 2011

39.28 km 128881.64 feet 24.41 mi 8993.00 seconds 149.88 minutes 2.50 hours 9.77 mi/hr

Our longest tandem ride ever! We're working up to 45 miles per day so we can ride the Genesee Valley Greenway end to end in two days.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2011

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37.57 km 123251.81 feet 23.34 mi 9059.00 seconds 150.98 minutes 2.52 hours 9.28 mi/hr

Went out on the Rutland Trail for the first time in a while. It's been a wet spring, and the trail has a lot of ATV-created mudpits. Got black splotches on me from the silty mud -- probably containing a lot of coal dust which is notoriously blackening. The Rutland Railroad used coal cinders for ballas because they had a lot of cinders and they were cheap. Unfortunately, they also not very well adhered, and so under the crushing action of wheels, they break up and make a very fine powder.

Really, what the Rutland Trail needs is to have a LOT more bicyclists so we can kick the ATVers off the trail, and lay down some nice rolled rock dust, or even pavement.

posted at: 17:39 | path: /bicycling | permanent link to this entry

Ride starting Thu Jul 28 19:05:13 2011

16.30 km 53488.08 feet 10.13 mi 3659.00 seconds 60.98 minutes 1.02 hours 9.97 mi/hr

Late late afternoon tandem ride with Heather. Basically, just around the block, although a "ride around the block" is ten miles for us. :)

posted at: 04:39 | path: /bicycling | permanent link to this entry

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