Monthly Archives: March 2010

Lunchtime ride to Sells Park

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Quick trip to Sells and back

Another pretty day, another ride.  I was very fortunate to get  out for about 30 minutes on the mountain bike on my lunch break.  I rode from Grover Center parking lot at Ohio University, through campus, then out the bike path and through the Near East Side to Sells Park.  The trails were still pretty damp, so I just did a quick loop around the pond and left.  I was only there for less than 10 minutes, but it felt great to have a little dirt under the knobbies.  It’s supposed to rain some more this week, so it may be quite some time before the trails are dry enough to ride.

Total distance was 6.2 miles in just under 30 minutes of riding.

55 and awesome

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Today's mileage

Today’s ride was a far cry from Saturday. Temps in the low 50′s and the fact that I have Monday afternoons off made or some excellent riding conditions. The bike path was still frozen about one mile south of Eclipse Company town, but I expect another day or so should fix that. I rode from Peden out to the frozen section, then turned around and rode to Holzer, and finally back to Peden Stadium. All told is was a good ride of 17.75 miles and 78 minutes of ride time. It’s great to get two rides in the same week. With rain coming toward the end of the week, it might be a while before I can ride again. Nevertheless, it appears that Spring has finally arrived in Athens, Ohio.

The graffitti train

Cold, but almost spring, ride

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On Saturday, Chris and I met up with Dave at Peden Stadium at around 7:30 a.m. The forecast called for a beautiful day, and we wanted to take full advantage of it. We had hoped to ride to Nelsonville and back on the Athens Bike Path, but the path was still largely frozen just south of Eclipse Company Town. So we turned around and got off the path at Currier, allowing us to tackle the formidable Second Street Hill. We all cleared the hill without walking, which is actually a pretty good indicator that we’re already pretty strong, despite the year just beginning. We then took East State Street down to the bike path and back to Peden, for a total of 12.6 miles. It was a great first ride of the year, leaving us very hungry for more. Oh, and it was 21 degrees when we started. And 26 degrees when we finished. It did reach 45 as a high on Saturday, and a lot of folks asked me why we didn’t wait until it got warmer to ride. For me, the afternoon was already spoken for, so I had to get my riding done early.