Training run for the Pinebush Triathlon

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In preparation for the Pinebush Triathlon, Moser and I went out for a quick tour of the southern Saratoga County pathways fit for cycling.

We started off by forgetting an ID badge, return to Fitness Center, re-launch, and no need to grind up the hill to the main entrance/gate since no one else was going to attend. The trail north to the Aquaduct Rd. intersection with Route 146, Balltown Road, onto the Rexford Bridge, then up the hill, right at Stewarts then the fun begins. Hearing a free-wheel whirring in back of me, I put the push to the pedal. The pace increases. . . a bit. We aren't pushing anything worth worrying about.

Soon we are at the split--Grooms Rd goes left on a turn, and Riverview straight ahead. We keep on. The asphalt is new and the road is smooth. It's 62 F out and the clouds and clear sky dapple the roadway. We pass the apple orchard on the right, the apple trees on the left, and turn left at Sugar Hill Road opposite of the Vischer Ferry Power Station.

It's still uphill once we're past the second apple orchard, Bowman's. Topping the hill, down toward the Groom's Tavern past the Grange Hall with "1495" address (not the date of establishment). We turn right but decide to turn back in favor of making the 1:30 pm meetings we both have. Soon it's a left onto Droms so we can take a new route home, off the 50 mph+ traffic on Grooms.

I am priveleged to show off the Van Arum home historical marker: I'm not sure it's standing in front of a real remainder of that time (ca. 1780), but that's what's implied.

Reconnecting with Riverview, we go right, west, toward the golf courses, the Stewarts, the left hand turn onto 146 heading downhill fast, fast, across the Rexford bridge. A right-hand turn up Aquaduct a bit, and onto the Rail Trail keeps us from attempting a cross-traffic turn that would retrace exactly our route from earlier, 50 minutes earlier.

The last pull up the hill on middle front chain ring, larger cassette gears in the back, we top the hill breathless. Not fast, but breathless.

Nice day for it.

55 minutes.