Well I have been back out on the road again. Eleanor has now broken the 200 mile club. Yea I know that not very many miles. But I ride when I can… last weeks ride was great. I took off from the house and head towards the Chippewa Nature Center trail; (Chippewa Trail: Walk, bike or in-line skate to downtown Midland on this 3.5 mile, non-motorized paved pathway. Interpretive stops along the route tell the exciting story of this unique landscape. This is the only Chippewa Nature Center trail where bikes are allowed.) This is a 3.5 mile trail that links up to the Pere Marquette rail trail. The ride to the trail is about 6 miles. Once on the trial you wind through several curves, up small grades and down. Cross over two roads about 1 mile apart and the trail cross over to creeks that are more like over flows for the Lilly pad cover ponds you ride past. It’s not a fast trail, but you can get a good pace going and the twist and turns make it fun. On the way to the rail trail you come out behind the softball diamonds and Frisbee Golf Park. Then it’s the Tridge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tridge from here is go west young man to Sanford, Coleman or Clare if you feel like the ride. But two the ride was only 44 miles. I made it to Sanford and on the way though I call my Dad for the return trip back home. I road a few more mile towards Coleman and then turned back to head home. Dad was waiting for me near one of the well place rest rooms alone the trail. From there we road back to Midland and on out to the Chippewa Nature Center Trail head. On the way back we past several other bike, roller blader’s, runners and walkers on the trail. My legs are starting to get bent. A term that I had no idea what anybody was talking about until I started riding a recumbent? Because there are muscles that you use in your legs to ride a recumbent I had not idea were even in my legs. On Dad on the other hand knew what it meant to have your legs Bent…. Dad and I make it back to the trail head. I’m feeling good in my ride. By the time I get home I will have road 44 mile this day. Dad tells me “Not bad for a yea kid”, from there Dad turns his Bent around head back home, and he rides away he yells back this was his second ride of the day. I call him when I get home. Dad had already ridden 20 mile that morning, Went to Mall and walked with his friends for 3 miles and now he just road close to 23 mile with me… Not to bad for a 69 year old.
