Woburn Street's beautiful new pavement isn't yet finished out to the curbs. The detour to Fletcher Avenue continues.
The small rectangular excavations in Bedford are filled with concrete now. Are these are foundations for benches?
Today: 13 miles. This year: 1472.7 miles. To Stillwater: 163.8 miles.
I passed the end of the Minuteman this morning and skated the paved portion of the Bedford Narrow Gauge Rail Trail over to the Great Road. I hadn't been there in years and had completely forgotten that a hundred yards or so of narrow gauge are rusting away alongside the trail. [Update: These rails are a re-creation, not original, and probably weren't there at my previous visit ten years ago.]
Near Loomis Street on the BNGRT
The gauge is well under two feet
On both trails I saw neatly excavated, taped-off rectangular plots. Landscaping? Archaeology? Shallow graves? I don't know.
After months of disruption and more than a week of outright closure, Woburn Street in Lexington was repaved this morning.
From Fletcher Ave. toward the trail crossing on Woburn St.
Today: 13.8 miles. This year: 1459.7 miles.
I'm busy with visiting relatives and won't be skating or posting until Thursday at the earliest.
Where the sun shines and the wind blows, the trail was clear and dry early this afternoon. Where they don't, it was thick with wet leaves or fir needles.
Near Valley Road, Lexington
Today: 8 miles. This year: 1431.2 miles.
At The Beginning of 2007, I mentioned my ambition to skate the distance to Stillwater, OK that year. It didn't happen. I renewed the goal in my Welcome to 2008. My plan was to keep ahead of 2007's pace and continue in 2008 past where I got lazy in 2007. That plan dissolved in mid-April with spring rains, chilly weather, and a week-long cold that kept me in the house. In late June I bottomed out 137 miles behind the previous year's pace.
Today it's all different. I'm (just barely) ahead of 2007-to-date. Another 16.3 miles will put all of 2007 behind me, leaving less than 200 miles to my annual goal. There might be a month of skating weather left. That should be enough.
Today: 13 miles. This year: 1423.2 miles.
Today's Boston Globe has an article about the increasing number of bike cages at Alewife Station, built in response to rapidly rising demand.
Yesterday: 10.5 miles. This year: 1384.2 miles.
Three words: slippery when wet.
Near Valley Road, Lexington
Yesterday: 8 miles. This year: 1360.7 miles.
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