Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Two short rides at MoMBA mountain bike area near Huffman Dam, in Dayton, Ohio. Did the easiest trail, Twisted, and the second easiest, Creekside. No real issues, but I wasn't completely comfortable riding over large gnarly series of roots. I also had the handlebars weighted (hard) once on a hard-edged step-up, and I was sure I was going over. So incredibly fun. It's been over twenty years since I've ridden this much singletrack. It's such a full-body workout, and a rush, even going slow and being extra careful. This definitely needs to be mapped for MTBO. It's not especially interconnected, but it'll do.

Also, this is literally ten minutes from work. I really need to buy a mountain bike. I borrowed this one from my cousin, specifically for checking out possible MTBO sites. Why I haven't been riding here once a week or more since it opened? Because I'm an idiot. (Movie quote, kinda. Heathers.)

C • MTBO area 2

Track from Garmin Oregon---for comparison to Forerunner 110 track.

Walking around Lehman High School in Sidney, Ohio, hoping to get enough information to make a quick orienteering map. The lidar 0.5m contours were pretty much *insanely* accurate. In the past, I've had places where the contours were essentially fiction, but in the open areas here, you could almost always see that they were correct.

I wasn't able to draw on mylar---my mylar was too thick and the basemap too difficult to see through the mylar. But most of the detail is in the aerial, and I made enough notes on the basemap that I think I can draft a creditable map.

Biking around Tawawa Park east of Sidney, Ohio, with Joe Ratermann, mostly on paved trails and roads. A few hundred meters of possible trespassing and maybe a hundred meters of bushwhacking. Really nice park, with much more development than appears from aerial photos, even leaf-off aerials. The point of the ride was to create a basemap for an eventual orienteering map.

Track from Garmin Oregon, for comparison and future use...