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After some frustrating attempts to get a x-sport rack to work I said screw it and took off down the trinity trail to at least do some intervals if I couldn't get any hill training done. Went out to the Eastern end and turned around to go back, and took a section of the trail that Alexis and I only recently discovered. Just before I arrived, I saw a big fat nutria, which i hadn't seen in a while. It's not that great a stretch of road, but it is VERY well shaded and cool and runs right behind the hebrew cemetray, and there are some beautiful mausoleums there. a Short stretch of chopseal and I'm on white settlement road. It's got some traffic, but teo wide lanes gives cars plenty of room to get over. I decided to try out wher white settlemtn goes and went all the way to where it connects with 183 / Alta Mere. There were a couple good hills along the way. oming back I cross a street that says "Burton Hill Road." Too tempting to resist. It's got a good mile or so run until the real climbing starts. it goes from 7-10 percent for 3/4 mile. I wasn't too gassed at the top thankfully, turned around and rode back to this newer section of the trinity trail right on the other side of Rockwood Park / Golf course. It only goes a mile but has some nice hills as well, including one across a dam that must have been 8 percent. Finished up this section going back up the other side of white settlement that has a 1/3 of a mile hill at around 6 percent, then back down rockwood aprk drive to tr trail. Along the way I see a greek cafe open in the afternoons only that I'm going to try tomorrow, and I met a SUPER nice guy named George on a terratrike cruiser. He'd had a brain tumor ten years ago and now has balance issues. I gave him the website and invited him to the picnic. It was quite windy today. Average was 17.3 I think - not bad for trail riding and all that hill-iciousness. I know for a fact that the trail doesn't have more than a 120 feet of climbing, and I ended up with 1352. Not too shabby for a day I thought would be wasted.
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