
34.6 mile ride on 8/31 my place to Gateway TC- met John there- out 205 bike path to Airport Way, past random unmarked road through industrial park, back to said road to connect to 230somethingth to Marine Drive (where the bike path is NOT grade separated contrary to what the map said) to Interlachen to Blue Lake park.
205 path was a lot of up and down- got up to 25mph with no effort on my part on the first segment out of Gateway TC. Section that went through Maywood Park was nice- separated from fwy by noise wall, and path was lanscaped and had historical and botanical markers.
Airport Way has bike lanes all the way out, but goes through a lot of industrial parks with lots of tractor-trailer traffic at 45+ mph. Not fun.
Didn't want to go back the way we came, so out east entrance of Blue Lake park along 230somethingth else with a nice wide bike lane up until Sandy blvd. About half a block past Sandy the bikelane and the shoulder disappear and the traffic lanes narrow as you pass under the railroad. Lanes remain narrow and no shoulder or bike lane for about 2 blocks after that.
Anyway, that bit brought us into Fairview where we found side streets to bring us to Halsey St which has a bike lane all the way into town.
At 122nd, signs seemed to indicate that Glisan was the recommended route back to Gateway TC. That may be the case for cars, but definitely not for bikes. I remember the intersection of 102nd and Halsey as being rather squirrely, but it can't be more of a pain than Glisan was.
Left my house at 11:15, got back around 7:30. John was having a slower time on hills than usual, and we had a longish lunch/ break at Blue Lake park. I did figure out how to use the trip time, miles and calories functions on my new bike computer, but only after I accidentally wiped the data for the first half of the trip. Total miles is based on starting and ending mileage. Based on half trip, it was probably around 1600 calories for the whole trip.
Was really tired and dragging the next day, so probably don't want to do a longer ride for a few weeks.