Perry:
Glad you hear you have picked up cycling.? I just started riding 2 years ago, so this will be my third summer.? I too did a metric century that first full year (I think I got my bike late summer the year before, too senile to remember for sure). I never felt the need to train for a full century, but did accumulate over 1300 miles last summer (I hesitate to ask JBotti how many miles he rode).
This summer, Lynn and I have added mountain bikes, and I have 130 miles or so on my mountain bike so far from a month ago when it turned warmer for a while.?
There are an amazing number of Fairfax County Trails that follow the streambeds that is zoned as park land because its in the flood plain.? Trails range all the way from asphalt paved to ruttted single track with lots of tree roots (I almost lost my keys last ride because I bounced them out of my under seat bag that I had accidentally left unzipped). Had to backtrack about a mile but DID find them laying along the edge of the trail.
There is also a trail on the C&O Canal towpath.? The C&O Canal was built by George Washington to bypass Great Falls on the Potomac, and it runs a long ways upriver from Georgetown. And Lynn's "country estate" is in the hills of New York along the Delaware River, so lots of off-piste trails there.
Should we have a Cycling section on the modified Realskiers forum? (see the "2011 Coming Changes" Board.)
BTW, maybe not in this forum, but what is your end of season assessment of the Watea's?
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