Ride update of the day

Had a bike ride for lunch today. 1 hour 26 seconds, 10.5 miles, the longest ride I've done since returning to Austin. (Previous rides included a 6.3 and a 5.1, plus a bit of puttering around the neighborhood.) Good to see that in spite of 2 months of being sedentary, I can still do that without keeling over and dying.

I finally made it out to Brushy Creek Lake Park. 20 minutes to ride there, and 4 minutes to do a complete circuit of the main trail, so the Law of Irony was preserved :-) The park is pretty new and the trails are mostly packed earth. They didn't hold up so well in the recent spate of downpours. All of them were worn, in some cases eroding significantly around the edges, and there were a few cyclist-killing ruts. Nice park though, essentially a big loop around a grassy wetland, much like that park in Sunnyvale that I can't think of the name of where I fell off the wall.

On a map at the park (the only one I could find; that place needs better signage), I saw a reference to a "Cedar Park Regional Trail". I went exploring for it, but it seems like that might just be a gleam in some city planner's eye. Certainly there were no water crossings other than Brushy Creek Rd.; my momentary excitement at the prospect of a non-road way to travel out to that area was quickly extinguished. I did find a maintenance road that ran under the elevated part of Parmer there, but it dead-ended at Brushy Creek Lake, and it was more suitable for mb than my poor hybrid.