Season-opening ride with extensions

With two little extensions, I increased this ride from 5-1/4 miles to 7-3/4 miles. Cool, huh? Here's the map overview

And here is the obligatory flyover.

Maynard walkabout

Including booty from the Farmers' Market. Also, we cleaned the garage for the first time ever.

Assabet Refuge end run

This is a longer path, skirting around the Assabet Wildlife Refuge on Route 27, passing the Sudbury Senior Center and playgrounds, entering the Refuge from the back. It's 8.69 miles, and what it is, too.

Brandeis ring road

This is simply the walk I take every day I'm at Brandeis, which I now know is a mile and a quarter.

Assabet Wildlife Preserve roads

This is a shorter trip (7.19 miles) through the wildlife preserve, staying on the roads rather than going through the woods.

Minuteman Air Field

This is the last of our usual programmed rides, and the longest at 11.56 miles. It takes us by the Minuteman Air Field onto Route 111 and through West Acton, where it intersects with the "West Acton" ride. This is also the hardest one by a fair piece because of the hilliness. Voici the altitude graph.

The Air Field's driveway comes into view at 1:46, as a left turn from the main road.

And the obligatory flyover.

The "other" Gropius house

Walter Gropius's Bauhaus house in Lincoln is now a tourist attraction, and Beff and I have been to see it a couple of times. Gropius built another one quite similar to it near the Concord Middle School, and you pass both the school and the house on this ride. This is just the second trip I've posted that exceeds ten miles (10.29). The Gropius House is visible, on the left of the route, in 1:27 to 1:30 of the flyover.

Here's the altitude graph for the ride

And here is the flyover.

Delaney Wildlife Preserve

This ride is 11.33 miles, and is the longest one yet posted. Here is the altitude graph, so you can see the hills encountered:

And here is the ride reimagined by an imaginary Canada goose (beginning with a drop from 2000 miles, of course).

Summer hill steep walk

This is the version of the walk that Beff doesn't like to do — follow the very steep incline to the top rather than take the long winding path around it.



This is the «altitude graph» for the walk:

Oops, ho fattolo ancora

The baguette/brie/farmers' market tomato thing was such a big hit that there has been an immediate reprise. This time, though, it's pictured at a different angle. Because you're worth it.

Baguette, brie, farmer's market tomatoes

Turns out the sandwich was simple and AWESOME.

The Summer Hill walk

This is our woodsy walk for the greatest possible exercise. For the wooded part, we have to be sure to stay close to the trees spray-painted yellow.

Hammocking again

Spell check, though, wants me to mock a ham.