It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. — Ernest Hemingway

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Pheasant Hunt

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Fixies need fresh air too, so slip on some knickers and forty three sixteen your townie butt to the boonies and back. 19 miles, easy. Props for spinning out on roadie pursuits at Pheasant Branch.
URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1742741

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Lake and Arboretum Doodle

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The map is here: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1740845
An easy 14 mile doodle around town.  Meet-up at the South West Bike Path and Glenway.  Head North on the Southwest bike path, loop through on the Capital City trail and back around to Vilas Park.  Ride into the Arboretum and back out.  
Fun and easy.  Nice scenery along John Nolan Drive [...]

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