Russ Nelson

30.94 km 101509.09 feet 19.23 mi 11258.00 seconds 187.63 minutes 3.13 hours 6.15 mi/hr

Rode this with my wife Heather on our tandem for our 30th wedding anniversary vacation.

6.91 km 22685.02 feet 4.30 mi 2549.00 seconds 42.48 minutes 0.71 hours 6.07 mi/hr

Just a little ride on the Genesee Valley Greenway in the city of Rochester where it joins up with a former railbed. It sidles down the hill to a switchback, and also connects to a concrete plant up on the top of the hill.

61.81 km 202792.78 feet 38.41 mi 14480.00 seconds 241.33 minutes 4.02 hours 9.55 mi/hr

Rode the Lehigh Valley Trail North, and the Lehigh Valley Trail. They meet at Rochester Junction. Started towards the north end of the North segment. Rode north until the trail petered out. Funny that there were no signs directing you to the continuation of the trail to the north, which I rode back in September 2010. Rode back to the trailhead, then down to Rochester Junction to pick up the LVT. Headed east ... hopefully to the end of the trail. Didn't make it that far; I had other things I wanted to do as well. I'll have to get to Victor anyway, because they have tons and tons of trails, some of them railtrails. Rode west back to Rochester Junction and then to the Genesee River where it meets up with the Genesee Valley Greenway.

9.78 km 32076.06 feet 6.08 mi 2441.00 seconds 40.68 minutes 0.68 hours 8.96 mi/hr

Rode the railroad portion of the Pittsford Railroad Loop Trail. NOT very well marked! You can see that I had to wander around a while before I found the trailhead. Even then it's just a grass trail with no signage or improvements to speak of.

15.38 km 50459.00 feet 9.56 mi 3255.00 seconds 54.25 minutes 0.90 hours 10.57 mi/hr

Bicycled the Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern railtrail on my way to the Rochester Airport. It starts in a park in Egypt, NY. Dead ends on the north at the Erie Canal. I think it used to cross, but the trolley line might have continued north along the canal. I didn't notice one way or the other. It dead-ends at a road on the west end. No idea why it doesn't continue. Probably property ownership issues, with a hostile landowner. :( It's a nice trail otherwise; stone dust the whole way.

13.08 km 42899.49 feet 8.12 mi 2910.00 seconds 48.50 minutes 0.81 hours 10.05 mi/hr

Rode the west half of the Glens Falls Feeder Canal Trail last Wednesday. The trail runs on the former towpath of the canal. For a little bit, the canal runs through the Finch-Pruyn paper plant, and I'm sure they didn't/don't want strangers walking or bicycling through their plant. For that portion, the trail is routed through city streets. At the eastern end of this ride, the towpath portion of the trail starts up again. You can see the western end of the gap where my route goes away from the canal.

20.70 km 67929.70 feet 12.87 mi 7705.00 seconds 128.42 minutes 2.14 hours 6.01 mi/hr

Rode the Spring Run Trail in Saratoga Springs. A bit short at 2 miles, so I spent some time riding around Saratoga Springs to make it longer. :)

38.47 km 126215.22 feet 23.90 mi 11896.00 seconds 198.27 minutes 3.30 hours 7.23 mi/hr

Went for a reasonably long ride with Heather on the tandem. Rode about 7 miles on the Rutland Trail. Getting in training for our ride on the Genesee Valley Greenway. It's not as rough as the Rutland, but we'll be riding it a much longer distance.

25.50 km 83645.65 feet 15.84 mi 5788.00 seconds 96.47 minutes 1.61 hours 9.85 mi/hr

Just a little ride into town and back.

53.54 km 175665.31 feet 33.27 mi 11124.00 seconds 185.40 minutes 3.09 hours 10.77 mi/hr

Went up through Parishville to Catharineville. It's a ghost town, with a bunch of cellar holes and a few falling-down buildings. Oh, and a LOT of stone walls surrounded by woods. Farmers only bothered to collect stones off cleared fields, so ... it must have been pretty tree-less at one point. But the soil up to Parishville is thin and underneath it is sand. Not good for crops; only good for pine trees.