getting breakfast at Stewarts before i start biking.
yard sale'ing again. lol
anyway, planning for the day, i'm going to shoot for lock 9, which is 62 miles away.
if i can reach lock 9, then that means, i can bike all the way to Glenmont tomorrow. the timing may be better for that anyway. the pizza place we all like doesn't open until 4p.m. anyway. So if I arrived around noon Thursday, i'd be waiting for yummy pizza anyway.
also looking at ride w gps, the trails are mostly all paved the rest of the way. only 4% is unpaved.
and it gets more downhill. so in theory, should be far, far easier to bike that 62 miles vs yesterday where it was a lot of stone dust.
i think next time, i'd put the larger tires and wider rimset on the bike. i'm a heavier than normal rider (even if i were a svelt 225, which i'm not) the wider tires would float better on the looser gravel paths, and bear the weight of my loaded bike better too.
29" x 2.2" tires are the equivalent of 700c x 55 tires, i'm riding 700 x 42's right now.. the bigger tires are slightly heavier, but the added comfort would probably be worth it. my current 700x42's are what i ride when fully on road. Reading online, people were claiming 42's are overkill, but i didn't factor in the tiny wee wee/ macho bragging / overcompensating factor a lot of cyclists have.
i finished "The man who broke capitalism" book.
a good read. long on indicting toxic CEO mentality, not long on the fixes. but then again i think liberals keep debating, planning and overthinking in general. believing that a nicer future will be handed to us is bs. if you want it, you have to make them....MAKE THEM...give it to us.
I dare say, Trump, being so belligerently Welchian in his business views. will bring that change sooner. yes people will suffer in the short term, but better than the long, slow enslavement we've been experiencing since men like Reagan and Jack Welch set us on this path. May they rot. thpffft (bloom county ref)
to review... i'm at mile 11 of my last route which is 108 miles long
lock 15 is at mile 39
lock 9 is at 73
other locks are missing on my map.
if i can't quite make lock 9, i'll get a hotel at Amsterdam (worst case ) there's a microtel near the path. if that happens, then we may go back to the original Thurs arrival plan.
i'll text folks later to make sure an earlier arrival would be ok. i'd still sleep over Wed at Chuck and Bea's if I get there a day early.
