Walking
The next 100 miles just aren't going to happen, I
fear
If I'd have gone with counting the biking
miles, instead of just calling a 30-minute biking session as two walking miles,
I'd maybe be ok. But I'm not. So here I am, less than halfway done
mileage-wise and almost two-thirds of my time gone. Five weeks left, and nearly
60 miles to do.
I'm enjoying walking outside now,
which means I'm not going to the Y and working on the weight machines as much.
Tsk. When we get to the point where it's 85 F when you wake up in the morning,
I'm sure the Y will look a lot more
inviting.
Here's the two mile loop around
Large High School:
Start
at the green arrow and go west to the bike path along the state highway. Travel
north to LHS and then east along its perimeter to the road that runs along its
east side. Go back south and east to the road that comes back south to the
arrow. (That's the buildings for Great Place Elementary just to the northeast
of the arrow.)
This path has the advantage of being
much flatter than the 2-mile
loop through our subdivision (but still not flat.) About half of it
is not tree-lined though, which can be good or bad depending on your viewpoint.
It's also much noisier along the state highway, and you don't want to be
crossing the entrances to the high school parking lots before about 8:45
am.
I love Google maps. You can learn
stuff that you just can't figure out from street level. Ferinstance, I never
thought that the road just south of LHS ran essentially east-west. Between the
curves and the hills (which you can't really tell from the pic), when driving it
you'd say it probably wound to all four points of the compass, and not in such a
regular fashion either. And even though I've taken those roads west from our
house several times a week for 10 years, I'd tell you that the house-less
portion ran perpendicular to the house-lined portion, because of the three-way
intersection where the two pieces meet.
Posted: Thu - May 17, 2007 at 08:53 PM
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