Re: Last week

On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:29:10 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 5/30/2025 8:26 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:

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.
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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.
 

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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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In my small Florida experience, terrain is more interesting
north and west which is not flat like most of the peninsula.
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https://printablemapforyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/florida-topography-map-colorful-natural-physical-landscape-topographic-map-of-florida-elevation.jpg

There's a string of hills down the center of the state. Some roadsin
that area are pretty hilly. See the old trilby road.

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C'est bon
Soloman