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Monday May 30, 2011 #
6 AM
Biking 3:00:00 [1] 35.0 mi (5:09 / mi) +341m 5:00 / mi
shoes: Bike Sandals
+ ~15 minutes in break time.
Goal was to be out of the door by 5:30 AM, but 6 AM would have to do. I had been awake since 2 or 3 AM, so I was hoping that maybe I would fall back to sleep, but I couldn't. I would have just lain there awake until it was too late to hit the trails, and I wouldn't have gone at all except Roger called up at 5:30 to tell me that the sun was coming up. So, up I got.
Went to the Humpback Bridge first, since I knew this section would be busier later on. Then back through Old Town Alexandria and across the Wilson Bridge. Lots of walkers coming towards me. Up a really long hill, maybe Oxon Hill itself? Over to Oxon Hill Farm and down a long hill to the bike path. Path was not in great shape, but it was along the river, and there was a deer, ducks, and lots of geese, some with newer batches of babies.
This trail was empty except for one guy digging up some sort of green along the flood plain. I went to the end, and only then did I realize that I was ending up in DC, by the infamous DC Village. Back the way I came, now dreading the return trip up the hill. Made it about 2/3 of the way and then had to walk the rest.
Back home without incident, though the trail, which was very peaceful earlier, was now packed.
Two GUs, a diet coke, water, and G2 while I was out there. Big breakfast (eggs and scrapple) and a nap when I was done.
Goal was to be out of the door by 5:30 AM, but 6 AM would have to do. I had been awake since 2 or 3 AM, so I was hoping that maybe I would fall back to sleep, but I couldn't. I would have just lain there awake until it was too late to hit the trails, and I wouldn't have gone at all except Roger called up at 5:30 to tell me that the sun was coming up. So, up I got.
Went to the Humpback Bridge first, since I knew this section would be busier later on. Then back through Old Town Alexandria and across the Wilson Bridge. Lots of walkers coming towards me. Up a really long hill, maybe Oxon Hill itself? Over to Oxon Hill Farm and down a long hill to the bike path. Path was not in great shape, but it was along the river, and there was a deer, ducks, and lots of geese, some with newer batches of babies.
This trail was empty except for one guy digging up some sort of green along the flood plain. I went to the end, and only then did I realize that I was ending up in DC, by the infamous DC Village. Back the way I came, now dreading the return trip up the hill. Made it about 2/3 of the way and then had to walk the rest.
Back home without incident, though the trail, which was very peaceful earlier, was now packed.
Two GUs, a diet coke, water, and G2 while I was out there. Big breakfast (eggs and scrapple) and a nap when I was done.