So, looking at that map of a magic lap. As far as I can tell when the trail west of the lake splits--left going over to the street, and right going over to the boat house--you guys go right to the boat house, right? I've always gone left and hit the road. I have always done the laps so that I am going down the big hill over the dam. Next time I try for a magic lap I'll try to go by the boat house.

I would say use the road and go clownwise.  The dam hill is better going down, and there is no equivalent to going up it that way.  Going the road does add a tenth of a mile or so.  But I should talk.  I couldn't do a magic lap with a motor assist!

As shown by the speed graph, my "pushing" cruising speed for non-sprinting on the trike on flat ground is 20-22mph...  compared to 24-25mph on the Xstream.  A real demonstration of the ~15% number I tend to talk about regarding loss of speed moving to a trike - thanks, Physics!

Quote from reever on Aug 24^th, 2018, 9:34am:
Hey, Reever!  We don't generally take the right fork to go over the wooden bridge, we stay straight to enter W Lawther, then back into the park, going under the new bridge, still under construction.  We remain on W Lawther all the way to Mockingbird Lane.  So much less foot traffic that way.  
 

Quote from jayg on Aug 24^th, 2018, 3:30pm:
There he goes again, Craig!  

Quote from reever on Feb 26^th, 2019, 5:51pm:

 
Congratulations! Thought that might have been you, after you passed us, and I saw you were on a Musashi. When I saw you in my mirror, thought you might be Mark L, because you looked like you were riding a low racer at warp speed. The crank forward bike you saw was Kenny J's E-bike, powered by Bafang. The "high racer" was actually a M5 carbon mid racer. I was riding it. A couple of us were on the last leg of our fifth lap.

Jay, just before I got to you guys I had to go cross country for a bit, as I couldn't make that winding turn that the sidewalk makes after it ducks under the street. I was going too fast to make two turns in a row and had to go through the grass. I'm thankful I didn't bite the dust on that one. Sorry I didn't have time to chat after my two laps were over. I had just driven in from Florida where I'd been riding on the Withlacoochee trail and some other trails out there. Wow, does Florida do their trails right! That thing around White Rock is good, but the trails in Florida are like 12-15 feet wide and go on forever! Congestion is never a problem.
 
Jerry, you have a very short time to whip yourself into shape before we all meet at the Texas Motor Speedway. Can you BELIEVE the College Station games were cancelled again this year????
 
Thank you guys for welcoming me into the magic lap club....society.....brotherhood?????
 
Oh, I just looked on Strava and saw that this segment called the east curve had me ranked 44 out of 11842. Ha! We ought to get a recumbent pace line going someday and see if we could climb that ladder.....