stoopid loopid

I managed to get fairly lost on my bike today, and ended up having to double back on a route that I had already blazed a few months ago. We did cover some serious hills though, and saw some beautiful farmland...certainly not an unsatisfactory journey, but a little longer than i would have liked in 90 degree heat! The extra loop provided the killer climb of the day, but with that came the best views...

tour de france it ain't

Gorgeous ride around Titicus reservoir, past a bunch of horse farms with Jeff "El Jefe" Haber. Good stuff!

getting back into it...

After 10+ years of Manhattan based biking, it's great to get out on the bicicletta and pedal some new pavement. Katonah is slap bang in the middle of one of NYC's reservoir systems, which makes it easy to pick biking loops with a nice view on hand. I'm really enjoying getting moderately lost and piecing together exercise and exploration...

Unfortunately all of this water is off limits to my kayak, so for the meantime I'll be trying to build up some strentgh in the legs to tackle all those hills!

Two wheeled exploration

Les and I got our gluttony on this weekend with Evan and Sam. We checked out the Hemlock Hill Farm, which was a beautiful 20 minute drive from home. We enjoyed water views on both sides of the road, and the black baby seemed to enjoy hugging corners on windy 2 lane roads...We picked up some locally raised lamb, chicken and straight from the swine bacon and proceeded to cook up a couple of feasts.

It was pretty tough to motivate on to the bicicletta, but I got my first Westchester bike ride on today. Shame I can't follow it up with a fat tire, but I'll settle for the fake microbrew Michelob that I ended up with last time I went shopping. Anyway, here's a look at the route I took...straight past Martha and Ralph's pads...not too shabby. Martha is rocking a sweet greenhouse too...hopefully I'll be able to post some more of these routes as I work the legs back into shape...