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My Ride

Posted 10/15/2008 10:06pm by Eugene Wyatt.

The Heritage Trail

After tending the sheep at the farm in the morning, I spend some of the afternoon riding my Cannondale road bike on the paved-over tracks (now a trail for bikes & roller blades) of the Erie Railroad, originally laid in 1841, that ran from the village of Goshen to the Hudson River at Piermont.

I ride a 16 mile course round trip; I push myself to ride it in less than an hour, recording my progress in a spreadsheet, measuring speed, cadence and heart rate in 4 laps, each lap measures 4 miles, with my handlebar-mounted wireless cyclocomputer.

I ride from March when the trees redden with buds, through the humid green flush of July, until a day in November when snow flakes begin to gently fall through the gray barren branches. And every October I'm sure that somewhere along my way I'll come upon Claude Monet at his easel.

Tags: Biking, Exercise

2 Comments »

JoEllen Estenson said,

10/18/2008 @ 9:18 am

What a spectacular ride! What a fabulous picture! "The world is charged with the grandeur..."

Eugene Wyatt said,

10/19/2008 @ 6:21 pm

The Warwick HS indoor swimming pool has opened to those of us who like to swim laps 5 days a week; now I'm riding 3 afternoons a week instead of 4-5 and instead swimming on M & W evenings to transition to the pool 4 evenings a week as the riding weather seasonally worsens before ending in snow.

I'm passioned about swimming too. But I'm relearning how to swim again after having been, and still, considered an excellent swimmer since I was captain of my HS swimming team. I'll tell you about that as time goes on in the pool.

And thanks for you kind words about another passion of mine, photography.