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Distance: 11.81 miles Route: Long Prairie & Stone Bridge Trail Time: 01:42:42
Avg Speed: 6.90 mph Max Speed: 0.00 mph Avg HR: 0 bpm
Max HR: 0 bpm Calories Burned: 0 Weight: 185
Altitude Gain: 0 ft Terrain: Off: Flat Bike: Cannondale Super V 1.000  XC Susp SS
Club: Ice Bike
Weather Conditions: Sunny. Windy SW 20-30 mph. 44° @ start - 50° @ finish.
Ride Description: I've felt better, but other than walking at North Pointe for an hour and fifteen minutes on Monday night, this is the first "exercise" I've gotten in since I started taking the BP drugs about a week ago. (1/27) My BP is back in the "normal" range, but the drugs make me feel like I'm 90 years old. I'll give my body a little more time to adjust to the drugs in my system.

Overall, a fun ride. And I've lost 10 pounds so far this year.
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 Warm Weather Ice Biking.
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With temps getting up to 52° today, I tried to get out early for some Ice Biking before everything melted.

From Roland Olson Forest Preserve...
I started east and trails were in pretty good "ice biking" conditions with mostly hard pack snow with some wet spots on ice, and some light slush. About 2.6 miles I hit the unprotected area, a stretch of trail with big snow drifts across it. The drifts were very soft and almost impossible to ride, so I turned around.

Most of the Stone Bridge Trail was very rideable hard packed snow, but there was a stretch of trail in the sun that was thawing and had no snow. That short stretch of the trail was a soft and soggy and mess of mushy moist crushed limestone. The bike will need a good cleaning.

The forecast shows above freezing temps for the next 7 days. This might be my last ice biking for a while.

I'm not sure if it shows that well, but the top and third pictures are riding on a smooth ice base covered with water. You can see the carbide studs in the tire reflecting the sunlight. Very Kool!

I changed my head badge sticker on my Super V-1 to an old school C'Dale look.


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