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Mon, 28 May 2012

Ride starting Wed May 30 19:03:23 2012

16.13 km 52931.98 feet 10.02 mi 2470.00 seconds 41.17 minutes 0.69 hours 14.61 mi/hr

Short ride "around the block" at a pretty decent pace.

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Sun, 27 May 2012

Ride starting Sat May 26 16:42:55 2012

21.08 km 69157.09 feet 13.10 mi 7873.00 seconds 131.22 minutes 2.19 hours 5.99 mi/hr

Rode around Tupper Lake looking at various bits of railroad remains. There's a TON of old New York & Ottawa rails still on the ground but completely disconnected from the main line.

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Ride starting Sat May 26 08:39:04 2012

40.09 km 131536.37 feet 24.91 mi 14250.00 seconds 237.50 minutes 3.96 hours 6.29 mi/hr

Rode up to Lake George from Glens Falls on the Warren County Bikeway. I did this almost a decade ago, but didn't take or else lost the GPS track from it.

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Wed, 23 May 2012

Ride starting Fri May 25 18:28:43 2012

31.08 km 101971.21 feet 19.31 mi 5289.00 seconds 88.15 minutes 1.47 hours 13.15 mi/hr

Rode the Zim Smith Trail again, only this time they finished the construction on the north end, so it's longer.

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Sun, 20 May 2012

Ride starting Sat May 19 13:19:59 2012

78.72 km 258272.04 feet 48.92 mi 18799.00 seconds 313.32 minutes 5.22 hours 9.37 mi/hr

Rode out to Moira on the Rutland Trail, and back on US-11. Almost 50 miles. Awesome. I'm a little tired, but I could have kept going.

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Ride starting Wed May 23 17:42:05 2012

34.82 km 114252.28 feet 21.64 mi 6835.00 seconds 113.92 minutes 1.90 hours 11.40 mi/hr

Down to Hannawa Falls and back, but I also went in to the Sugar Island power generation plant to see where the Hannawa Falls Railroad might have run. My conclusion: along the route of the penstock. The road beside it is just too hilly.

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Fri, 18 May 2012

Ride starting Thu May 17 17:16:53 2012

30.14 km 98895.56 feet 18.73 mi 8917.00 seconds 148.62 minutes 2.48 hours 7.56 mi/hr

Had a nice ride down to and around the Red Sandstone Trail on Sugar Island.

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Thu, 17 May 2012

Ride starting Fri May 18 17:43:29 2012

35.16 km 115367.46 feet 21.85 mi 6007.00 seconds 100.12 minutes 1.67 hours 13.09 mi/hr

Went over past the Allen's Falls road, into town, and back out again. Stopped to visit a little farm road that looks like it goes through.

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Wed, 16 May 2012

Ride starting Wed May 16 17:51:34 2012

26.55 km 87116.20 feet 16.50 mi 5233.00 seconds 87.22 minutes 1.45 hours 11.35 mi/hr

Boy, my rides are getting shorter and shorter, but that's only because I've bbeen coming home later and later. Need to come home early enough to be able to do another 40-miler.

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Tue, 15 May 2012

Ride starting Tue May 15 17:33:05 2012

34.09 km 111843.18 feet 21.18 mi 7938.00 seconds 132.30 minutes 2.21 hours 9.61 mi/hr

A slightly shorter ride today, only 21 miles. Stopped to talk to a couple of friends who live on the way.

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Sun, 13 May 2012

Ride starting Fri May 11 17:29:34 2012

20.61 km 67629.25 feet 12.81 mi 9759.00 seconds 162.65 minutes 2.71 hours 4.72 mi/hr

Went up to Norwood to catch a train carrying windmill blades, each two flatcars long. One of the flat cars carries no weight -- and is just there as a spacer. The entire train was 6000' long, and fully half of it was empty flatcars. The train came from out west, and still have its Union Pacific power (two). They were handing off the train to the New York & Ogdensburg, which was hauling the blades to its port in Ogdensburg. From there, the blades were transferred to trucks.

I don't know how fast they were running most of the trip, but when they were pulling the train into the yard, they were only going 7 miles/hour.

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Sat, 12 May 2012

Ride starting Mon May 14 16:33:58 2012

44.29 km 145300.60 feet 27.52 mi 10704.00 seconds 178.40 minutes 2.97 hours 9.26 mi/hr

27 miles seems like a decent ride. Not too long, not too short.

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Mon, 07 May 2012

Ride starting Sat May 12 12:29:22 2012

62.41 km 204745.81 feet 38.78 mi 17314.00 seconds 288.57 minutes 4.81 hours 8.06 mi/hr

The lawnmower needed a belt which wasn't in stock at our Tractor Supply store, and the one in Massena had it. Rather than ruin my bicycle ride by driving up to get it, I decided that the bicycle ride would BE going up to get it.

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Sat, 05 May 2012

Ride starting Sun May 6 13:17:27 2012

70.56 km 231491.59 feet 43.84 mi 15325.00 seconds 255.42 minutes 4.26 hours 10.30 mi/hr

Going to ride the Erie Canal Tour in July. Need to train for an average of 50 miles a day, day after day.

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29.44 km 96582.13 feet 18.29 mi 5244.00 seconds 87.40 minutes 1.46 hours 12.56 mi/hr

Rode on US-11 out to CR-47. Was going to go all the way down to US-11B, but I started to run out of daylight, plus the clouds which had rained earlier were starting to threaten. The ground is very saturated with water this spring.

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