Shelby’s greenway each Summer gradually accepts swarms of Biting-Flies into its Paradise. It’s mostly joggers who suffer, being slow & sweaty, but once a [searching for collective noun] gnash however small catches your draft, cyclists are easy pickings. I’ve learned to cede the lost field to the victor.
I picked the old Saturday route today – the Metro Greenway past the Titans’ training field & all the way to Ted Rhodes golf course. Taking the back-roads up near TSU adds a few safe miles to the route & I overshot my 48 mile goal. Such good weather – I left late enough for low humidity but early enough for fewer than 95°.
This doesn’t show that I got 1000 feet of climbing in. Good enough on such a flat route.
COVID-19 took away most of the cyclists but there were many golfers out
Ecbatan 