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As mentioned yesterday I had hoped to ride 50 miles today and I did. My bike computer, which I believe to be fairly accurate, logged 50.73 miles by the time I returned out to my house. The GPS logged distances are over 50 miles as well.
(Brian) met up at my house and set out towards the Paint Creek Trail, turned back 6.5 miles from Lake Orion, then wound our way back to my house. We were originally going to ride down Schoenherr to Dodge Park then to Metro Beach then back (a combination of these two rides: 1, 2), but the rather high temperatures (~91°F when we left) made us want to ride somewhere with shade.
After getting back to my house and racking up 30-some miles, Brian headed home.
I had to ship a package (an iSight Tripod Adapter) at the post office, so I strapped it to the back of my bike and headed off to the post office. After shipping the package I decided to keep heading west down 22 Mile, and I ended up riding through River Bends Park for a while, including along the trail where I’d scraped up my leg. Winding my way home I added on a few more miles taking routes in and out of subdivisions, ending up right near my neighborhood right as the bike computer tripped the 50.00 mark.
All in all it was a good ride. There weren’t any close calls with cars, I didn’t fall, and while the weather was hot it didn’t rain. The only problem I had was that my shirt, saturated with sweat, kept rubbing on my nipples, eventually giving me a case of what seems to be known as Jogger’s Nipple. When I first viewed the Wikipedia article it was lacking a photo, so I took one of my very sore, inflamed nipple and posted it, releasing it under CC. My hosting of the photo is here, the copy in Wikipedia’s stores is here, and it’s been embedded in the article.
There weren’t too many out of the ordinary things along the route, except for this giant inflatable monster holding a sign reading “CONGRATS MINI GOOCH” (as seen above) which was out in front of a house hosting a party.
The ride was long enough that the KML file from the ride won’t display all at once in Google Earth, so here it is broken up into two files:
· Everything before the post office stop. (View in Google Maps)
· Post office stop and back home. (View in Google Maps)