Friday, November 25, 2011

Rail-Trail-palooza: Black Friday Hundred (11/25/11)

Train Engineer (or Santa) Totem in Westford (or Chelmsford) on the Antonio (or Bruce) Freeman Trail

Route: Somerville-Nashua-Somerville Rails to Trail Trails
Distance: 105 miles
100 Mile Time: 7:14
105 Mile Time: 7:43

So as people piled into large chain stores to buy stuff for near the same price they can the other 364 days, I decided to ride my Nashua Rails to Trail ride.

Rail Trail #1 – Somerville Community Bike Path (Winter Hill-Davis Sq.)
Rail Trail #2 – Alewife Linear Trail (Davis Sq. – Alewife)
Rail Trail #3 – Minuteman Community Bikeway (Alewife – Bedford Depot)
Rail Trail #4 – Bedford – Billerica Narrow Gauge Rail Trail (Bedford Depot – Bedford Center)
Intermezzo – Route 225
Rail Trail #5 – Bruce Freeman Trail (Westford – Lowell – 10 minute break – Lowell - Westford)
Intermezzo 2 – Route 225 and Sandy Pond Road and Briefly on 2A
Rail Trail #6 – Nashua River Rail Trail (Ayer – Nashua, NH)
Lunch @ Zacharia Pizzeria
Rail Trail #6 – Nashua River Rail Trail (Nashua, NH – Ayer)
Mechanical – Popped Rear Tire on 2A in Ayer (I hate 2A up that way – the Gardner-Fitchburg section is the worst “paved” road in America)
Intermezzo 3 – Sandy Pond Road and Route 225
Rail Trail #4 – Bedford – Billerica Narrow Gauge Rail Trail (Bedford Center – Bedford Depot)
Rail Trail #3 – Minuteman Community Bikeway (Bedford Depot – Arlington Center)
Home Ride (I was already over 100 so I went home the short way) – Broadway (Arlington Center – Winter Hill)

Good LSD ride to start the Winter/Spring Season. Apparently I really didn’t care about the speed of the last 5 either since it took me nearly half an hour!

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