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<\/a>Today’s Bike Ride at Stony Creek<\/center><\/p>\nToday I was off work, so I had a rather relaxing, but work-filled day. It started out with a now-typical weekend breakfast of yogurt, granola, coffee, and a banana. Then I showered, and decided to work on cleaning up my bike. A little while later my bike was freshly washed with a nicely oiled chain and clean brake rotors. After oiling the chain on Danielle’s bike\u2020<\/sup> I decided that I needed to go for a bit of a bike ride.<\/p>\n Since the weather was relatively nice (it felt like 40, even though the various online systems indicated it was only 35 or so), I headed up to Stony Creek Metropark<\/a>. I took my car (with the bike rack) on the highway to get there, and while the rack was nicely stable, my car did seem to drag a bit. It’s clearly not as aerodynamic with a few bikes sticking up off of the back of it.<\/p>\n While at the park this time I ended up riding along the road. It’s a bit smoother and tends to have less water on it, and being a park the drivers are familiar with watching out for those on bikes in the road. I ended up doing two laps along the main road, with a jaunt down to the Nature Center between the two.<\/p>\n This was the longest ride I’d ever done, with the GPS clocking it in as 16.6 miles, and the bike computer at 17.05. Normally I wouldn’t think that is very much, but as anyone who has been to Stony knows, it’s nothing but rolling hills there. I think there is only maybe half a mile of flat pavement amongst all of that; where the main road crosses one of the dams. It was definitely a good bit of exercise.<\/p>\n After coming hope I ended up showering again, sitting around for a bit, then ordering a pizza and enjoying the majority of it with a Trader Joe’s 750mL beer and some TiVo’d entertainment (King Of The Hill, Colbert Report, Daily Show, and How It’s Made).<\/p>\n Here is the KMZ of today’s ride<\/a>, and here it is in Google Maps, if you prefer to look that way<\/a>. Again, this was logged with my old Garmin eTrex Legend. This time it was converted with GPSBabel<\/a> for Windows, because the drivers for my USB RS-232 port are complete crap on OS X. They repeatedly hang, can’t be unloaded via kextunload<\/tt>, and just cause problems. Therefore, next time I place an order with Mouser I will be ordering a good FTDI<\/a> development serial cable.<\/p>\n \u2020<\/sup> I never, ever want to oil the chain on a coaster brake bike again without either a workstand or a second person to help. That was not easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s Bike Ride at Stony Creek Today I was off work, so I had a rather relaxing, but work-filled day. It started out with a…<\/p>\n