Decked out my new bike last night but not ready to actually ride it yet - new cleats and clip pedals that I need to practice in before going on the road. Last night I fell over in the trainer in my room. Yikes!
This morning I decided to ride to work - old bike - and rode about 17 miles in a long arc around San Jose to Alviso and over. Lots of bike route detours added an extra couple of miles and I missed one of the trail entrances that would have cut a bunch of time off. I was late for work.
This evening, I decided to ride home and pickup the trail I missed and see where it came out. The trail is part of the Sunnyvale Baylands trail system and is quite lovely—marshlands, lakes, cool water bird. From this trail I intersected the San Tomas Aquino trail that went under 237 and all the way out for about 4.5 miles back behind Great America and the Santa Clara convention center. At the end of the paved trail, I turned and a few blocks later, picked up Lafayette which I took all the way over 101 and into Santa Clara where I picked up Park. Park dropped me into San Jose, through the Rose Garden area and finally home into Willow Glen. Home. Dinner. Yum.
So total today about 32 miles split up by a day of work.
Posted by erin at August 10, 2004 08:57 PM