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.

Robert you are the man!  Now I know exactly how to plan my hill training days!