Made the Jamaica ride today. The trail surface was nice and dry for the most part, firm without much washout, save for a couple of small and easily-avoidable muddy areas. A few years ago parts of the trail were utterly destroyed due to harsh rains and flooding but the repairs have been holding up very well, particularly in light of the harsh rains and flooding we’ve had here in the past couple of weeks.
Did a there-and-back-again from home, to the Saltillo trailhead and back home. Round trip of 16.28 miles for a weekly total of 50.83. Still not great for this time of year but not bad for only the second week of bicycling for the year. According to Fitbit this ride burned 1005 calories. Seems a bit high to me. And by “a bit” I mean like 300 bits.
One of the things I like best about this trail is that it has these woodsy sections:
Even though there is a train track about 40 yards to the right and a neighborhood about another 120 yards beyond that there is a feeling of isolation in this part of the trail. The trees and thick ground foliage (nettles in particular) really dampen the sound of city-life and civilization in general so it’s easy to forget about those things and just enjoy the scenery.
Didn’t see any turkeys or deer this trip. Or any of those groundhog things. Maybe next time.
Later did some laundry and the drawstring was pulled out of my Nashbar bike shorts. Real pain to get it back in. Used a bike-wheel spoke to thread the drawstring bike into the shorts so it was all nice, bike-related, bikey bikelstuff to get it put bike together again.