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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Last week
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 09:29:10 -0500
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On 5/30/2025 8:26 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> On 5/28/2025 6:09 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
>> Last week left on Wednesday to help my son in Tampa had 
>> leg surgery for chronic compartment syndrome. Drove the 
>> 1150 miles had not done that kind of solo driving in many 
>> years. Was hard and hard on back in car that long.
>>
>> The best part helping my son though was getting to 
>> Nashville to see my friend owns the vintage guitar store. 
>> But the cycling down in Tampa is bad. I could not really 
>> get out away enough to do real road ride. I did my usual 
>> power walk and on Monday road around hit neighbor hood 
>> loops to get miles. No traffic memorial day every and was 
>> residential but never went farther than about 2 miles from 
>> his house.
> 
> There have been a number of times while on vacation/business 
> trips where I've substituted a run for a ride due to 
> unfriendly roads.
> 
>>
>> Not a fan of Tampa at all. I did like the heat but it was 
>> at 6am so not as bad. Got back today and really Illinois 
>> is not such a bad place.
> 
> I've had three trips to floriduh over the past couple of 
> decades - only one moderately pleasurable cycling experience 
> (rented a mountain bike in the Miami area and road some kind 
> crappy trails).
> 
> Ironically, the LAB ranks floriduh as 9th in the country:
> https://bikeleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ 
> BFS_Report_2024-1.pdf
> 
> As far as I can tell, it's mostly due to the number of 
> railtrails (as "infrastructure") which is rather expansive. 
> The limitation there of course is that you need to live a 
> reasonable distance from a trail or you're stuck with 
> driving the to trail or riding through unfriendly roads (LAB 
> ranks it with the 4th highest cyclist fatality rate in the 
> country, despite the 6th highest per capita spending)..
> 
> 
>> I am completely wiped out driving 770 miles yesterday and 
>> 375 today. I real bike century would be a piece of cake 
>> compared to the distance and traffic. Atlanta was nuts and 
>> Nashville at rush hour. Next time it is plane and rent a 
>> bike. However having your own bike is worth a lot. Also, 
>> the 32 mm tires only need about 65 PSI so my mini leyzine 
>> pump actually works fine. 250 strokes no hard to do and 
>> you are fine.
> 
> 
> 

In my small Florida experience, terrain is more interesting 
north and west which is not flat like most of the peninsula.

https://printablemapforyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/florida-topography-map-colorful-natural-physical-landscape-topographic-map-of-florida-elevation.jpg

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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