2009 Bike Rides

As the year comes to a close, it's a good time to post a collection of all the bike rides I completed in 2009. I rode 750 miles on seventeen rides, which is down from 1,300 miles on thirty rides in 2008. Within these fewer rides, I did manage to achieve a few far-flung milestones, namely Exton Square, Maryland, and Trenton.

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The ride to Maryland was the longest at just over 100 miles, my only century of the year. I have to add a few extra miles in Fairmount Park to reach that threshold. The ride to Trenton was my last major ride of the year. I didn't so much seek out that city itself, but wanted to ride along the Jersey side of the Delaware River until I reached the first available bridge beyond Philadelphia to cross back into Pennsylvania. My last ride of the year was a short out-and-back through Fairmount Park on Halloween (not shown on the map as is completely overlaps over rides). There is one other ride not on the map, a nine mile ride through the Great Dismal Swamp near Norfolk, Virginia, my only non-local ride of the year.