I managed to successfully navigate a new loop this morning. It happened pretty much by accident, but it did get me 24 miles on a chilly grey Sunday morning. For the most part the ride was fine, but my toes were cold at the end. I think the temperature was around 40 degrees.

I’m experimenting with putting a map of my ride into the post this morning, and I’ve setup a profile at MapMyRide. Now this mapped route is actually slightly different than what I actually rode because the point at which I show a turn onto Scientific from Kivett I actually rode right past at first and went a couple more miles down Kivett to College before I decided to turn around. It was getting a little bit too urban for me. Also, there’s a big gap you might note where I appear to go cross-country. It seems that the connection of Guilford College Road hasn’t been updated yet on the mapping system, so I’m not sure if the mileage the map indicates is really quite right. My cycle computer had me at 23.8 miles or thereabouts for the ride entire.

I’ve named the ride my “Scientific Route” because the discovery was Scientific Street. I didn’t know where I was going to come out on Kivett, and as I rode past Scientific it rang a bell from when Marcella and I were out driving around about two weeks ago in Jamestown, and I thought to myself, I think that might connect through to Main Street in Jamestown, and if it does I can get home via Penny.

I’m going to put a link to my MapMyRide profile in the My Networks section in the sidebar of the blog so that as I add new routes they can be viewed from there. For now the profile is public.