For the past one and a half years we have been working towards this day. It was to complete our deacon quorum's health project for Duty to God and also the final ride towards Britton's cycling merit badge. as we planned it we were going to go in the morning but to allow Jeramy to ride with us, we changed the time to 12:30pm. At which time I went up to pick Britton up, he was still repairing his bike. Both tires were flat and the bike was missing one pedal. This was not looking too great. Finally was able to break away from the family and go pick up Jeramy. We were about 30 minutes late. Drove to Farmington and unloaded the bikes. From there we headed south on Legacy Parkway and arrived at Redwood Road after about one hour and one minute of riding. Rested only for a minute and headed back north to Farmington Station. About 1 hr 4 minutes.
We refilled our water bottles and had a few snacks then headed north to finally catch up to the paved bike path headed north. You have to ride the public roads about 3/4 mile to reach this bike path. Rode it to where hyway 193 runs into the Freeport Center. Decided that was the turning around point to complete this ride. There are lots of gates and city streets we had to manuver thru and across. Probably 20 gates and 10 streets between Farmington and this Freeport entrance. And that many more on the way back. What a pain. We all decided the next time we'll just stay on the south end and double back to get the required miles. Finished the ride and Jeramy said total riding time was 3 hours 38 minutes. Add to that the time we rested it probably took a total of 4 hours 20 minutes to complete. Jeramy and Britton had road bikes and very light, while I rode my wonderful Mountain bike with all its knobbs.
Today's Miles - 50.2 Miles
Total Miles - 828.1 Miles
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