I had set some pretty hefty goals for May:
- 75 miles per week;
- 300 miles for the month;
- longest ride to date of at least 40 miles; and
- bike in 2 new states!
I worked hard this month and I'm proud to say I get a check mark for each goal!! I was able to really push myself and make sure I got at least 75 miles each week, which got me to the 300 mile mark today!
I biked everywhere. I went to biking events and meetup groups. I even got some friends to start biking.
Two weekends ago we were staying in Holland, MI for a kite festival in Grand Haven (I highly recommend the kite festival!). I rode 40 miles around the area in 2 days. Holland and the surrounding area was very bike friendly!
Last weekend I was camping in Ohio for Memorial Day. I was able to find a wonderful trail in the country that a friend and I rode 42 miles on from Nelsonville to Athens. It seems like Ohio has some really nice trails!
People often ask me, how do you find all these bike trails?? Its a simple answer: google (https://maps.google.com/). This allows you to input directions via car, bus, bike or by foot. You can generally search your city by inputting a starting location and adding another city or landmark in the destination; this doesn't have to be perfect because once you hit the bike routing option you'll see a lot of green lines on the map. These are bike trails/routes: the solid dark lines are bike trails, the lighter green lines are bike trails on roads and the dashed green lines are bike friendly roads. Hopefully you can discover some new routes you didn't know existed!
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