Training Log Archive: Mr Wonderful

Event: Michigan Adventure Race: Hastings/Yankee Springs (7 or 12 hours)
 

Event: Green Corn Moon Rogaine
 

Beautiful morning, nice ride, which has, conveniently, a bridge at 1 hr, a park entrance off the Metro Trail @ 1:30, that bridge again at 2 hr, then home.

Was going beautifully until I took some gravel road, and then was riding off the abandoned bridge, and spotted my exit, but did not spot the substantial dip at the end the bridge, which was roughly big enough to completely stop my front wheel. Over the bars, with a nice view by a passing SUV which stopped and checked on me, but I was fine. One of my hoods is loose, so I can learn how to tighten those.

Didn't run watch, but probably walked myself back to parity with target (roughly...minus 500 on any day without real exercise).

This plus having walked to dinner should square up for my inability to read calorie labels.

Two rounds better than none again, same as last. Sleepy.

Frequently encountered while exploring seasonal roads.

If you look close, near the left fork, there's a sign on the tree. Something like "24 hour video surveillance, no trespassing", that sort of thing.

Which fork is this hoping you won't use? To me, it seems to indicate that proceeding on the left fork would be wrong. But it's not, the left fork is the continuation of the seasonal road ("Not plowed by insert county"). The right fork I think does go into the private property.



The entrance to this season road had No Trespassing signs perpendicular to the road on both sides at its start! (The transition from non seasonal road to seasonal road.)

This isn't isolated. There's a river bend park where the no trespassing signs are more perpendicular to the road rather than parallel, causing you to doubt that you are able to proceed on the road when you can. There are some other seasonal roads that go through kind of hunting grounds (some single private party, some hunt clubs) where there signs are similarly placed.

This is one of the reasons I didn't even consider than we'd end up behind a gate at WT 2017.

C • I liked no-trespassing sign... 2

Two rounds are better than no rounds:

20 push ups
20 30 lb per side dumbbell squats
10x per side 30 lb curls

Rode down to pickup my car from the windshield place (swapped it earlier today for the freshly windshield-ed spouse's car), but did so via I-275 Metro, and then the glorious fine crushed stone (you could ride 23s on it) trail, out to the Morton Taylor mtb trails.

I think those trails would work for MTB-O. I know I was confused, did not ride half of them, and was all over the place. I had a great time. Other than I will probably use up the last of my Tecnu, should reorder stat!



Then the again fine crushed stone trail up to the car was pretty sweet. More power lines need more trails!

Dropped off spouse's car for a new windshield and walked home. With reasonably heavy pack, which I should weigh.