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Namrita Kumar ODea MS, RD
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I have not wanted to ride on the road at ALL lately. Maybe it's the heat..or maybe I'm just bored with the lack of good training roads in Atlanta. There's not much good scenery close-by and we live in an area with lots of truck traffic and stop lights. Lately, I've been putting more miles on our 2002 Escape which is reaching the end of it's precious life..220,000+ miles on it!!..just because all I feel like doing right now is riding mountain bikes. It's unfortunate that we don't have any good mountain biking within the City of Atlanta. We have Sope Creek..but it's nothing like it used to be. It's about 5 miles of trail, if that, that's mostly used by runners and walkers. I wish we lived in a city that had weekly short track and XC races..heck..I wish we lived in a city where mountain biking was an option without having to drive an hour. We have some secret trails here and there around the city so I've just been trying to mix some of those in on my lower-volume training days.

lunch today
 
thinking that I should have brought bug spray
not many people ride these trails, obviously. some parts are little overgrown and there are lots of trees down
 


I do my fair share of dismounting on this trail..for example here

 

Then, some of the stuff is really fun to ride, too. You always have to expect little wheel grabbers from underneath, though. They like to surprise you.

 

I'm counting down the days until the weekend..we will be checking out the trail and route status for the Fool's Gold 50/100...the race is less than 4 weeks away now!

Posted By:Namrita Kumar ODea MS, RD On 27 Jul 2010 AT 11:29 | 0 COMMENTS
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