CBBBlinker, sounds like a great vacation! Reminds me some respects like the family vacation we take every summer in Bethany. This will be our 26th year at the same place. Our fully grown adult children won’t let us stop lol! It’s a zoo with them, their spouses/significant others and occasional friends who drop in for a day or 2.
Nrdsb4, that’s a horrible tragedy. The problem with multi use trails is that people often zone out in their own little world and don’t keep a proper lookout for others. Wearing head phones is a major contributor to being oblivious to what’s going on around you and walkers and runners who use them on multi use trails often don’t realize the dangers which are created. Conversely, bicyclists should not be traveling at such speeds that they can’t adequately alert other users that they are approaching from behind and should not attempt to pass at a speed that makes accident avoidance impossible. Bottom line is that everyone needs to give up a bit of convenience, compromise and share on a multi use trail but you have jerks from all activities who just don’t get it. The result is often tragic.
55 miles in 95 degree heat today. Rode to the start location. Instead of riding the additional 12 miles home when we returned to the start, I conned someone into giving my bike and me a ride home. I just had no interest in riding 12 more miles with some tough hills in 95 degree heat. I must be getting old!
@MichaelNKat, yes, I’ve observed a lot of clueless behavior on the trails, usually involving people either wearing earphones or engrossed in their conversations.
The other day a cyclist passed me ON THE RIGHT with no warning, with a completely open opposing lane to my left. I was livid as I could easily have veered into him.
Friday, a runner came crossed right in front of me in my lane from the trees without looking before entering the lane. That is the single most stupid thing I have ever witnessed at that trail. I was in my lane, minding my own business, and this idiot didn’t even look-just appeared out of nowhere. Wearing headphones.
I can totally see why serious bikers tend to stay away from these kinds of trails.
Some of the serious racers I ride with will ride multi use trails on relaxed casual rides if the trail happens to go in the right direction but we ride at very reduced speeds and slow down when encountering walkers side by side, kids on bikes etc. To a person, all of them would like to shove bicycle frame pumps into the spokes of pseudo racers tucked in their aerobars who go screaming down the trails “training” for time trials when the trails are in use by others. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), we all use CO2 for flats and none of us carry frame pumps ;). On those occasions when my racer friends want to use a multi use trail for serious training, they get there at 7:00 a.m. when the trails are empty of other users. Aerobars and earphones on multi user trails are really a pet peeve of mine.
“Friday, a runner came crossed right in front of me in my lane from the trees without looking before entering the lane. That is the single most stupid thing I have ever witnessed at that trail. I was in my lane, minding my own business, and this idiot didn’t even look-just appeared out of nowhere. Wearing headphones.”
Last weekend, I saw a similar thing: a runner decided to cross the path right in front of two bicyclists. He clearly saw them coming, and they were going fairly slow. He started running in the middle of the trail, they slowed down and tried to pass him on the left, and as soon as they began their move, he quickly crossed in front of them - WTH was he thinking?! Then, he opened his mouth really wide and cursed at the bicyclists using terminology completely inappropriate for the multi-use trail! Wow. Some people.
Wow, acollegestudent. It got to 95 here today, and all I could do was a short dash from the car to the nearest mall entrance!
My cats have melted into the floor. I have yet to pick up my free weights… I promise I will!!
I hope you replenished the sweat you lost during the run. While 3-5 miles will not lead to electrolyte depletion, it can become an issue with longer runs. Salt is a dustance runner’s friend!
I have found it very helpful to get weighed before and after outdoor cardio workouts in heat like this. Gives you a good measure of how your hydration plan is working and what you need to replace post activity.
4.5 mile walk at 6:00 this morning – before the it gets any hotter. Should have been a running day, but I’m letting the blisters heal a little more. Next up – a speed cleaning marathon through the house before “hotel week” starts. Somehow the majority of our summer visitors are all scheduled one right after the other …
3.2 miles this morning. I think it was (and the weather stats confirmed) the worst morning so far- maybe even in my 9 years in Tennessee- as far as heat and humidity. It was 76 and about 90% humidity at 6am. Even for a warm weather person like me, it was tough.
Skechers is coming out with a max-cushioning shoe this fall and it will be at a lower price point than most of the Hokas. Should be interesting.
