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Distance:
18.36 miles
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Altitude Gain:
864 ft
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Avg Speed:
10.38 mph
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Route:
New River Trail
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Avg Grade: 0 %
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Max Grade: 0 %
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Max HR: 151 bpm
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Avg HR: 114 bpm
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Terrain: Off: Flat
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Bike: Look Blade RS 795 Iconic Ltd Road
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Club: Schuyler County Cycling Club |
| Weather Conditions: Sunny 72 F SE wind @ 5 mph |
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Today is a travel day with tomorrow being a hilly metric. Didn't get much recovery last night so planned on having a light day. Saw there was a rail trail in nearby Pulaski, VA, so headed over to do some fairly flat spinning. Site I was accessing showed some of the sections to be paved and other sections gravel. Planned on riding the first paved section and assessing the gravel section to see if it was ridable and cut the ride short if it wasn't. Trail supposedly is fifty miles long. Parked in Pulaski on a spur trail as the trail head was in a state park and required a seven-dollar parking fee. Spur trail was not really very good for a road bike with a couple inches of loose stones covering it. I was able to ride it as long as I kept going in a straight line. Turning was a bit of a challenge. Got to the trail head and ended up going the wrong way on a section under development. Again it was a fairly deep loose stone surface with occasional ruts that I chose to dismount to avoid. Got to a dead end and returned to the trail head and headed uphill in the proper direction. Trail was not paved but had a fairly hard packed stone surface. There wasn't any type of hydrocarbon bonding agent, so I really didn't recognize it as paved. There were a couple of nice wooden bridges passing hundred feet or so above the roads. Got to the Draper parking lot and found that the surface was again loose stone so called it a day and returned to the original trailhead. Didn't want to return on the loose stone spur so headed into Pulaski on the roads to return to the start. Weather was great for riding as it finally warmed up in the mountains. The only part of the ride I enjoyed was the road miles back through the city. The trail miles were a waste of time on a road bike. Did get some junk miles in but probably would have been better to just take the day off.
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