So, I found this great website-mapmyride.com. It totally kicks ass...you basically look at a google map of your target area, and then start clicking up and down streets and blammo-it maps your route and includes information like the exact distance, the elevation details, and allows you to share it with the community and describe it and tweak it and share the map.
So, this is the route Ian and I rode last night. We had in mind the upcoming Katy Trail challenge, and I was so excited the whole time that Ian and I were actually riding together. Then, at the end he said he probably won't go on the Katy Trail ride....wah wah wwwwwaaaaaahhhh. What shit! I was not happy to learn this, but I guess Steven is still planning on going.
About the ride though--for St. Louis, it's a really killer. It basically goes up every large hill in the area and they come with freakish regularity. Four of them over the whole route. I made sure to stay off of busy streets. When it does go onto busier streets, it is on the least heavily trafficked areas of those roads. The far eastern edge of Manchester, the part of Skinker that has a huge shoulder plus the Forest Park Bike Path. It takes you by the two large and in charge parks in STL--forest park and tower grove park. Both are cool, but Forest Park by far wins out in terms of a place to go biking. Best bike trail in STL!
It was a challenging ride, but I was able to do it without walking up any hills (which for me is a success.) I will definitely do this ride again, and maybe in reverse someday for a lighter 26 miler. Next time, I'll post pictures of shit I pass on the road.
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