This Space for Rent

That’s one

All done

I rode Volcanoes vs. Farmland today, and despite being out of shape and fatter due to the holidays I managed to do it in finite time. But the results are deceptive; I only spent 20 minutes stopped while doing this loop, and 10 minutes of that were due to

  1. stopping to take pictures of a train in Oregon City,
  2. dropping my chain on Harding Road (I was grinding up the steep ramp there when my rear wheel rolled into some loose leaf debris. The chain just hopped! off the chainring when my slow pedaling was briefly converted to a fast spin,)
  3. stopping on Buckner Creek Road to take pictures of Willamette Valley Southern artifacts, then
  4. stopping to take pictures of a volcano, and finally
  5. stopping on Saltzman Road to first fall over (I rode into a debris-filled gully on the path, and the bicycle cheerfully tipped over when I tried to hop it out) and then get a couple of info questions for my Dixie Mountain 100 populaire.

If I’d actually stopped at any of the controls for snacks, this would have been a much longer loop. But then I would have missed dropping down Saltzman Road at twilight, and that would have been a shame.