Third Time is the Charm- Iroquois Pk.
Date: Jan. 16
Mileage: 30
Ride type: Road
Bike: Litespeed Blueridge
Temp: 55 and windy- p.m.
January mileage: 130
Year to date: 130
my 3rd post of the day contains the content i care about the most. i took advantage of the warm, sunny day and got some mileage in. there was pretty strong wind coming in from the SW, so i did what they say to do and rode into the wind for the first leg so i would have a tailwind coming home. from where live that puts me at heading towards Iroquois Park. As stated in the Title of my blog, Louisville has a great park system, the central part of it designed by Frank Law Olmstead, . The three central parks of the Olmstead system are Cherokee, the one near my home. Cherokee was envisioned as a greensway along a meandering woodland creek, which it is in following Beargrass Creek. Shawnee in the west was planned as a broad, expansive lawn, much like the great lawns of Central Pk. in NY. Finally, Iroquois was to be the Forest, teaming with trees and mystery, etc. etc.
Today i meandered towards Iroquois, taking in Floyd st. next to Cardinal stadium, and later Strawberry Ln. both of these were a bit dicey in that i was riding into a direct headwind, which i knew i would have to do. i angled over to Iroquois, around the back, and up the hill. It's a mile-ish climb, though not too steep. By the time i was there i was feeling the head winds though. i stopped at the lookout to get a nice very of downtown and Churchill Downs. On the return, I hoped for the tailwind that earned, and was paid with a brisk trip down Southern Pkwy doing abt 20mph. The plan was to follow Eastern Pkwy home, but i had an ominous feeling about a little hill on Eastern that always gets me, this time @ 4.00 or so with traffic. i decided to cut through the N. Audubon area, by Joe Creason Pk and then home.
i'm a little whooped, but a well earned tiredness instead of a lethargic tiredness.
much better!
** concerning changes to the blog, i added a few links and put them in rough descending order- general/schwag/cycling racing/blogs.
**i also tried to put a cool little WeatherUnderground gizmo on the site, but that didn't work. I'll have to try again, although my html is lacking.
Mileage: 30
Ride type: Road
Bike: Litespeed Blueridge
Temp: 55 and windy- p.m.
January mileage: 130
Year to date: 130
my 3rd post of the day contains the content i care about the most. i took advantage of the warm, sunny day and got some mileage in. there was pretty strong wind coming in from the SW, so i did what they say to do and rode into the wind for the first leg so i would have a tailwind coming home. from where live that puts me at heading towards Iroquois Park. As stated in the Title of my blog, Louisville has a great park system, the central part of it designed by Frank Law Olmstead, . The three central parks of the Olmstead system are Cherokee, the one near my home. Cherokee was envisioned as a greensway along a meandering woodland creek, which it is in following Beargrass Creek. Shawnee in the west was planned as a broad, expansive lawn, much like the great lawns of Central Pk. in NY. Finally, Iroquois was to be the Forest, teaming with trees and mystery, etc. etc.
Today i meandered towards Iroquois, taking in Floyd st. next to Cardinal stadium, and later Strawberry Ln. both of these were a bit dicey in that i was riding into a direct headwind, which i knew i would have to do. i angled over to Iroquois, around the back, and up the hill. It's a mile-ish climb, though not too steep. By the time i was there i was feeling the head winds though. i stopped at the lookout to get a nice very of downtown and Churchill Downs. On the return, I hoped for the tailwind that earned, and was paid with a brisk trip down Southern Pkwy doing abt 20mph. The plan was to follow Eastern Pkwy home, but i had an ominous feeling about a little hill on Eastern that always gets me, this time @ 4.00 or so with traffic. i decided to cut through the N. Audubon area, by Joe Creason Pk and then home.
i'm a little whooped, but a well earned tiredness instead of a lethargic tiredness.
much better!
** concerning changes to the blog, i added a few links and put them in rough descending order- general/schwag/cycling racing/blogs.
**i also tried to put a cool little WeatherUnderground gizmo on the site, but that didn't work. I'll have to try again, although my html is lacking.
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