Last Sunday, I took a short ride through Fairmount Park. Though I would have liked to have taken a longer ride, it was a busy weekend. I was in New York and Saturday and had many tasks to take care of Sunday, but I found an hour and half for a short ride. Mostly, I wanted to test my amateur repairs to my front gears. They bike rode well, but in the higher gears I do feel a little hitch.
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I left late in the day, rode a typical pattern out Martin Luther King Drive on the west side of the Schuylkill River. I definitely wanted to test my handiwork on a few climbs so I rode up in to the park as far as Chamounix Drive. I crossed Strawberry Mansion Bridge three times to enjoy some fine Spring views up and down the river. I rode by Mount Pleasant, a estate in the Park briefly owned by Benedict Arnold, had a fun descent down Fountain Green Drive, and finish my return along the Schuylkill Trail.
Statistics
Length: 12.7. miles
Ride Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 13 minute
Avg. Speed: 11.9 MPH
Max. Speed: 28.9 MPH
Avg. Cadence: 60 RPM
Cumulative Ascent: 500 ft.
Max. Elevation: 266 ft.
About Me
Pogwatigue Perambulations
Pogwatigue: A Pottawatomie word meaning 'running water.' Early settlers chose this word as the original name for my hometown, Niles, Michigan.
Perambulation: roam, stroll, inspection of an area on foot.
My intent for this blog is to catalog my various local, regional, national, and perhaps someday international explorations. Originally, I found the blog a good vehicle to publish Google maps on the internet and all my initial posts have such a map embedded, but I don't limit myself to that genre. Almost all the posts will have a personal, geographic element. For the title, I chose Pogwatigue due to its ties to my roots roots and perambulations as a fancy, alliterative word to describe the content.
Perambulation: roam, stroll, inspection of an area on foot.
My intent for this blog is to catalog my various local, regional, national, and perhaps someday international explorations. Originally, I found the blog a good vehicle to publish Google maps on the internet and all my initial posts have such a map embedded, but I don't limit myself to that genre. Almost all the posts will have a personal, geographic element. For the title, I chose Pogwatigue due to its ties to my roots roots and perambulations as a fancy, alliterative word to describe the content.
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