Re: Last week

On 5/28/2025 6:09 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:

Last week left on Wednesday to help my son in Tampa had leg surgery for chronic compartment syndrome. Drove the 1150 miles had not done that kind of solo driving in many years. Was hard and hard on back in car that long.
 The best part helping my son though was getting to Nashville to see my friend owns the vintage guitar store. But the cycling down in Tampa is bad. I could not really get out away enough to do real road ride. I did my usual power walk and on Monday road around hit neighbor hood loops to get miles. No traffic memorial day every and was residential but never went farther than about 2 miles from his house.

There have been a number of times while on vacation/business trips where I've substituted a run for a ride due to unfriendly roads.

 Not a fan of Tampa at all. I did like the heat but it was at 6am so not as bad. Got back today and really Illinois is not such a bad place.

I've had three trips to floriduh over the past couple of decades - only one moderately pleasurable cycling experience (rented a mountain bike in the Miami area and road some kind crappy trails).
Ironically, the LAB ranks floriduh as 9th in the country:
https://bikeleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BFS_Report_2024-1.pdf
As far as I can tell, it's mostly due to the number of railtrails (as "infrastructure") which is rather expansive. The limitation there of course is that you need to live a reasonable distance from a trail or you're stuck with driving the to trail or riding through unfriendly roads (LAB ranks it with the 4th highest cyclist fatality rate in the country, despite the 6th highest per capita spending)..

I am completely wiped out driving 770 miles yesterday and 375 today. I real bike century would be a piece of cake compared to the distance and traffic. Atlanta was nuts and Nashville at rush hour. Next time it is plane and rent a bike. However having your own bike is worth a lot. Also, the 32 mm tires only need about 65 PSI so my mini leyzine pump actually works fine. 250 strokes no hard to do and you are fine.

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