![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Biked a marathon
Apr. 20th, 2003 11:28 pmI replaced my brake pads this morning on my bike, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
76trombones and I figured we'd go for a bike ride. So I rode to Davis, and we rode from there to Alewife and started on the Minuteman. We were doing okay when we got to Lexington, so we kept going. Competing traffic dropped a lot there. The trail looked like it did something strange when we got to Bedford, but other people on bikes were going down a street, so we followed them. We ultimately decided we had passed the end of the trail and were starting to get a little tired, so we turned around and came back.
But home to Davis is probably two miles, particularly going around Winter Hill. According to signs at Alewife, Davis to Alewife is a mile and a half, and Alewife to Bedford is 10.5 miles. So we did 12 miles, twice, plus 2 miles to get to Davis, minus a mile because we walked from the bus yard to Davis, but then plus a mile or two for getting home after playing spades. It's got to come to at least 26.2 miles. :-)
Coming back we averaged 7 minutes a mile on the bike trail, which is reasonable. (At least, it took us 70 minutes to get from the first mile marker to Alewife.) Passed a couple of people we knew along the way. No flat tires at all! Brakes worked admirably (and quietly). There seemed to be a lot of railroad-related construction, or something; there was work going on inside the Lexington station, and construction around the Bedford terminus of the trail. There was also a B&M Budd RDC parked across the street from the end of the trail; I wonder if someone's going to actively try to restore it.
But now I'm tired. Three hours on a bike is a lot. Still, this probably means I'm not as horribly out of shape as I was afraid.
76trombones and I figured we'd go for a bike ride. So I rode to Davis, and we rode from there to Alewife and started on the Minuteman. We were doing okay when we got to Lexington, so we kept going. Competing traffic dropped a lot there. The trail looked like it did something strange when we got to Bedford, but other people on bikes were going down a street, so we followed them. We ultimately decided we had passed the end of the trail and were starting to get a little tired, so we turned around and came back.But home to Davis is probably two miles, particularly going around Winter Hill. According to signs at Alewife, Davis to Alewife is a mile and a half, and Alewife to Bedford is 10.5 miles. So we did 12 miles, twice, plus 2 miles to get to Davis, minus a mile because we walked from the bus yard to Davis, but then plus a mile or two for getting home after playing spades. It's got to come to at least 26.2 miles. :-)
Coming back we averaged 7 minutes a mile on the bike trail, which is reasonable. (At least, it took us 70 minutes to get from the first mile marker to Alewife.) Passed a couple of people we knew along the way. No flat tires at all! Brakes worked admirably (and quietly). There seemed to be a lot of railroad-related construction, or something; there was work going on inside the Lexington station, and construction around the Bedford terminus of the trail. There was also a B&M Budd RDC parked across the street from the end of the trail; I wonder if someone's going to actively try to restore it.
But now I'm tired. Three hours on a bike is a lot. Still, this probably means I'm not as horribly out of shape as I was afraid.
