Map My Ride for Iphone
So I installed "Map My Ride" on my Iphone, and when it works, it's pretty cool. It will record your ride and give you a map and plenty statistics about it. You can also view your rides on the web after your register with mapmyride.com. (When it doesn't work, I think it's because of the spotty cellphone service around the lake.)
Below is the recorded map of a recent ride that I've set up as a one hour workout ride around the lake. That blobby area in the center left is where I started at my house on Stoneybrae. See if you can figure out the streets that I went on for this ride. This route took me across the bridge at the Women's Garden.
I've since expanded the ride, riding beside and behind that home where Whispering and Lakeview meet, on that gravel path between the houses that takes you up to Bay Tree and Sleepy Hollow. I have to walk some of it because my road bike won't make it through the rough gravel there.
From the top of Bay Tree, I fly down the hill on Sleepy Hollow, crossing Dearborn and then trudge up the hill to Malbrook, turning right and again fly downhill to Crosswoods and go left. Then depending on how much energy I have left, I may do a few more hills on Fiddler's Green or Rustic or Waterway, and head home after.
Anyone who wants to join me is welcome. I try to do this around 615-630pm evenings.
Bike Ride this Sunday!
Sunday, September 29, should be another great weather day for riding. If anyone would like to join on a ride to Reston for lunch at the Community Canteen, let me know. It's a longer ride, about 15 miles each way, but it's on the W&OD Trail, so there's a few hills and inclines in each direction, but nothing like riding around the Lake.
Let me know if you'd like to join. I plan to leave from the Bluemont Park Parking lot at N. Manchester around 11:30am to get to Reston between 12:30pm and 1:00pm.
Happy riding!
Larry
