Michael We live in Catonsville & would love to know the route you used! Thanks for this report on the experience.
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:49:37 PM UTC-5, Michael wrote: > > 40’s. A little Windy. Long Johns, MUSApants, cycling shorts, wool shirt > layer, mock turtleneck, winter gloves, hood, helmet...felt great. Someone > here told me to try not wearing a shell in the cold to prevent sweating and > just layer up. It works!! I have been riding in just layers of any material > and it seems to work good. Somehow I find that cotton long johns keep me > warmer than wool baselayers. > Ellicott City to Sykesville and back. > Rolling hills pretty much whole way. Like a roller coaster through small > farms and also farmland that have new developments built on them. > Tough riding (to me) but good and fun training for rolling terrain > rides. The route I took had great shoulders. The roads looked like ribbons > that stretched out ahead of you rising up and down and up and down off in > the distance. Cloudy and dim afternoon light. > Sykesville was cool to see. Its an old Main Street type town with old > stone structures and a railroad depot and shoppes. I wanted to take a pic > of the life sized bicycle planter I have seen there on the sidewalk before, > but it wasn't there today. Maybe the shoppe was closed today. Apologies for > my lame description of Sykesville. I don't know much about it. Probably > others here are familiar. And they can tell you that: > Spout Hill Rd. in Sykesville has a 3 or 4 tiered hill section that is very > steep and tough. But ends in a nice sweeping and relaxing 3rd avenue and > Springfield Rd downhills that circle around back to Main Street. > The way back home from Sykesville felt much easier for some reason. I > started really enjoying the ride when I got to Sykesville and stopped > worrying about my slow speed. Earlier on, I was getting discouraged at my > slowness and difficulty riding all those hills. Of course, losing 10 lbs. > would help. Ha ha! > I thank God that my legs are not hurting anymore. Everything felt great > on the Sam today. I am so thankful that I am ok and didn't hurt myself on > my last ride I reported where I had some serious leg pain during the ride. > Here is a shot of the back of the depot... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
