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Distance:
31.12 miles
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Altitude Gain:
1,657 ft
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Avg Speed:
16.82 mph
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Route:
Lake Clairborne Loop
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Avg Grade: 0 %
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Max Grade: 0 %
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Max HR: 0 bpm
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Avg HR: 0 bpm
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Terrain: Road: Rolling
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Bike: Look 585 Carbon Road
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Club: Schuyler County Cycling Club |
| Weather Conditions: Sunny 90 F S wind @ 14 mph |
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Finished up at work grabbed an hour of sleep and headed to Louisiana. Stopped at the welcome center just over the Texas border and did some bike maintenance in the parking lot. Swapped my straight block for my mountain gears and recharged the sealant in my no tubes along with removing the coating of Texas prairie that encased my frame. Grabbed another hour sleep in the parking lot and headed to Homer. I had found Homer a couple years ago when I was in a quest to ride in towns that shared names with Simpsons charactors. The Homer loop was one of my successes. The less said about Wiggins, Mississippi the better. The loop is a little over thirty miles long and circumvents a manmade lake. It includes a leg with a gradual climb on a scenic state highway with wide shoulders. It must had rained here recently as the trees are now at maximum foilage. It felt good to ride between the vibrant green walls. Most of the year the trees are green but I think the sun bleaches the green out of them after a time, and I have seldom seem a green this vivid this far south. Was having a good ride and started to get pelted with bumblebees that were collecting pollen from some purple cloverlike blossums that were growing along the road. Thought for sure I would be stung but they didn't seem to be aggressive just clumsy as the wind would blow them off course and into me. I brushed several of them off without any damage. I once rode through a swarm of bees in the Sonora desert where thousands of bees were flowing in a river across the road. I was pelted dozens of times then too and it felt like being out in a hail storm, but I wasn't stung that time either. The second leg drops down from the top of the dam to the bottom and climbs back out the other side of the valley. Maximum grades were around ten percent but the twisting climbs aren't very long. The third leg is a gradual decsent back into Homer. Seems to be a popular recreation area with some traffic but it was all friendly. First 90 degree ride of the year on my favorate Louisiana course. Celebrated a great day on the bike with a bag of Ginger Snap cookies.
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