29 miles: Point of Rocks to Mt Airy

The rest of the loop back to Mt. Airy from the last post. In between that and this is about 14 miles of C&O Canal towpath.

54 miles: Mt. Airy to Harpers Ferry

This is a one-way route across the Catoctin and South Mountain ridges linking Mt. Airy, east of Frederick, to Harpers Ferry West Virginia. I'm planning on making this part of a longer loop that incorporates the C&O Canal towpath - but I can't map that using Google Maps!

45 Miles on Day 30

Here is the link to the ride Andrew and I did on our 30th and final day of riding our bikes this month. It was a great route (even with the long out and back section on Patuxent River Rd). The weather cooperated for us and it was a fantastic way to end our daily-ride challenge.

Challenge: 30 Days of April

I'm taking part in a challenge between a few of us at the shop. Sometime in March we decided we were going to ride for at least 45 minutes on every day in April. We're now 25 days in; Andrew, Scott, and myself have all managed to ride on each of the last 25 days. I've been trying to take a camera on each ride, or at least take a before- or after-ride picture. The link to the Flickr page with my photoset is here.

The whole endeavor has changed my view on riding a little bit; on group rides I find myself much more content to let people break away, figuring I'll eventually catch back up. I've been spending a lot of time in the little ring so as to rest my leg muscles as much as possible. It's also been a new experience going for short rides every day, instead of long rides a couple times a week with plenty of time in between to recover. It's been a lot of fun and a neat accomplishment... but I'm really looking forward to day 31.

35 miles Park & Ride Loop

Here is a link to tomorrow afternoon's ride around Anne Arundel County.

50 miles: Shop to Harwood Loops

Here is a link to a route from the shop through Davidsonville to a loop used by one of the local cycling teams as a weekly ride. All these roads are a lot of fun and I've ridden them many times.

62 miles: Columbia Triathlon + 37

Here is a Google Maps link to a route that starts at Centennial Park in Columbia and covers the whole route of the Columbia triathlon. It branches off, however, to add another long loop out through the rolling terrain up toward Woodbine and through Patuxent River State Park. I will post an update once I get the chance to ride the whole loop to verify road conditions etc.