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Ready to Ride

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Went on my first bike ride of the year. It was nothing special really. I do not have the tenacity to put the bike rack back on the trunk of the car, load up the bikes, and drive down to see what the Tow Path looks like in the middle of an Ohio March, which may I remind you there is still snow visible on the ground in parking lots and other assorted places that do not get a great deal of light. Eddy, Deanna, and I all went down to the store and to the park. Patty was at a friends house, so she could not have gone. I wish I knew what the name of that store, but I really do not.

I checked everyone’s air pressure. I have some tuning to do on the brakes on both of their bikes. Eddy’s bike I am not so concerned with, since I believe I will be replacing that this year. I do not feel his bike is the right size for him any longer. I sprayed their chains and gears with WD-40 and I think that took care of some of the rust. I did not take any pictures, but honestly all I would have been taking pictures of is the neighborhood that I see outside my door every day.

I can not find any of the water bottles I bought last year, and I am beginning to think that even if I were to find them I would not necessarily want them any longer. I still need to get thinner profile tires for my bike, because the whole mountain bike tire thing really isn’t going to work for this street/path riding.

Bike Ride to Storm’s House

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I decided to take a bike ride today, because I was feeling kind of restless. It was nothing like most of my trips as far as distance goes, but I feel like even though the bike ride was relatively short I got a lot out of it going on such a hot and humid day.

I went over to Storm’s house and taking Brown Street was a good idea, because there is a bike lane all the way up to his house for the most part, so that worked out pretty well. While I was there we watched some videos and I looked at some pictures of when he was in Iraq. He has this video of him chasing a little tornado in a pickup truck. It is sort of hilarious.

I decided, as I often do, not to go home the way I went there. There was a bike lane for most of the trip back. If you look at the speed I managed to get going kind of fast going down a hill by my house. It was fun.

Another Bike Ride

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I decided to take a bike ride on Saturday and Renee decided she would come along. We started in North Akron, as I always do with the kids, and we went all the way to Peninsula. I forgot my camera, because I guess I don’t associate needing the camera when I go on these trips with anyone other than the kids. I should have brought it.

This was supposed to be the first time that I’d have a tracklog of the trip. I decided, and wrote about it in another post, that I had decided to use MyMotion in order to track the trip. There is one major problem and one small problem.

The major problem is that the trip goes all over the place. You are supposed to allow for some deviation from the trip you actually took since GPS is constantly trying to figure out where you are within something in the neighborhood of 300 to 500 meters at every ping. The problem is that the trip actually went across rivers and all over the place. The distance marked is totaling 19 miles for the trip to Peninsula, when really the round trip is only 19 miles. I don’t know if this is a problem with the GPS unit or the software. Further testing is going to be necessary.

The secondary problem is that all the information, such as speed, were not recorded. Jo informed me that I was doing it wrong. I’m supposed to save the trip as a .trk file and then convert it using a web page that he linked me to. This should fix the problem with information not being retained.

I’m not going to show you the GPS data, because I really feel like it’s worthless.

The trip was a lot of fun. It was supposed to get up to 80 degrees, but to be honest it never really felt that warm. I took plenty of water bottles, but we didn’t finish them all. We saw a bunch of woolly bear caterpillars on the trail. I was supposed to look it up, but I haven’t found any information on why it would appear that they were crossing the trail. Seems really dangerous and unnecessary.

We ate at the Winking Lizard in Peninsula. It was packed, because of the college football games. We ended up walking around Peninsula while we were waiting for a seat and we saw two snakes. They were pretty cool. It’s always so weird what nature you see when you go for these trips.

I hope that I can get some clothes that will make these bike trips possible as the weather gets colder. I don’t think they close the Towpath, but I guess I should grab a pamphlet next time and find out if they have dates for that sort of thing.

Another Bike Ride

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I took a ride today without the kids.  I just needed some time to myself.  I didn’t want to worry about loading all three bikes, or water bottles, or waiting till they got home from school.  I just wanted to take a trip and get some stress out on the trail.

It was raining off and on the whole time.  I saw Jo riding back from Peninsula, because his company took a ride out there for lunch.  Kind of like a business field trip. I decided that I would ride out there as well. That’s exactly what I did.

I only stopped once and honestly when it was all done and said I was sore and tired. That’s exactly how I wanted to feel. I didn’t want to feel as though I could have given anymore to the trail. I wanted to leave it all there. I was pleased.

I don’t have a single picture, because without the kids I don’t have any real reason to stop. I also don’t have them to take pictures of. It’s just not the same experience at all without them. I enjoy it with them for completely different reasons.