Hello all,
Perhaps I should start out by introducing myself. I’m Debbie, Devon’s friend. I bought my bike last May (2009) and rode modestly last summer. I believe that I did about 500 miles all summer long. Well the spring of 2010 was approaching I decided that I was going to give myself a challenge. The challenge was to ride 1000 miles over the course of the cycling season. I started riding to work, the whole 1.7 miles down the road. Wow! I know. Then I got my riding legs working and starting making a 5-10 mile loop instead of the direct route. That turned into riding on my lunch hour then riding to Boston after work, to weekend rides.
I’ve gone on a few rides with Devon. It was all great. Adding more and more mileage to the table. Well, I Friday I set out on the longest distance, solo, road ride of my life! I left from work (West Newton, MA) with my final destination to be Devon’s house in Londonderry. Devon and I had plans to communicate along my trip and if I needed, he’d come a pick me up.
As I approached Lexington, MA I got a bit lost and that added about 5-10 miles to my ride. Well, with this new route, I was able to take some rail trails. One was super sketchy. It was a dirt path through the woods. When you riding alone in the woods, pushing your body to it’s max, your minds wonders, thus increasing your speed. With every patch of soft sand, I was thinking that someone must have placed that sand there to make single cyclist fall and drag them off the trail and no one would ever find them. Crazy, I know… Well to say the least, through those parts, I was kinda freaking out and rode to the max! My mind set was just to ride faster than a normal person could run! Well as most of you guessed, no one was hiding behind a tree waiting for me and when I told Devon this, he laughed at me. View full article »
