[DVBC] such nice weather and no ride reports

[eric zwicky]

hey dave,

i didn't ride on saturday due to old friends visiting from virginia, but 
on sunday i took my son and his pal, who just got a new bike, on the 
schuylkill river trail from miquon to oaks and back.   27 totally flat 
miles, but my son's buddy has medical issues which preclude lung-busting 
activity, so it was a good course for him.

it was surprisingly cool and we had a head-wind all the way to oaks. 
where the schuylkill trail turns into the perkiomen trail, you can now 
go straight at the end of that bridge, to all those warehouse-looking 
places, where the rock-climbing gym is.   there's a restaurant in the 
back of the complex called arnolds, and you can eat outside.   it was a 
serendipitous find.    they have a big sign at the end of the trail. 
in fact, i think it's called the "end of the trail cafe" or some such. 
typical hot dogs, burgers, pizza, chese-steak kind of stuff, but i was 
able to get two chicken breasts with hot-sauce... no carbs, just grilled 
chicken, which was quite good.

i told the boys that we should have a tail-wind all the way back, but as 
is sometimes the case, the weather deities saw fit to reverse course and 
grace us with the opportunity for extra aerobic activity on the 
south-bound trip.

surprisingly, and fortunately, there were relatively few hell-bent 
time-triallists on the trail, which made for a much less nervous ride 
than i've experienced in the past.

hope everybody has good rides this week... looks like nice weather. 
i'm in the bay area 'til friday morning, so will have to miss the AHCS 
and wednesday night rides.   maybe next week, if i'm around.

-eric




Dave Hartrum wrote:
> Surprised not to see some ride reports on the list-serve.
> Spent Sunday cleaning out the garage. So no riding today.
> Had a nice 62 miler on Saturday. Solo ride. Parts of the Bonkers route.
> Did the Delaware loop after riding to Chads Ford.
> Roads are in pretty good shape with a lot of our route markers from last 
> year still visible.
> I was noticing that this winter seems to have opened up a lot of linear 
> cracks in the road surface.
> Need to be careful not to catch your tire in the wide ones.
> I saw Ed S out on the road going in the other direction.
> Hope everyone got out for some nice miles this weekend.
> 
> Dave Hartrum
> dhartrum at mac.com <mailto:dhartrum at mac.com>
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