139th ride

Like last Saturday, I went up to Brighton to ride again with Kahle Strickland, arriving earlier this week so that we began our ride just about 6:50. (Today, however, we found more bikers and runners in the park.) But, whereas on that previous occasion we confined ourselves to riding in the Island Lake State Recreation Area, today we stretched it out a little more, taking a path that goes beneath I-96 and connects you to Kensington Metropark (one of Michigan's most popular parks, a part of the Huron-Clinton Metroparks system). Kensington contains nearly 4500 acres of wooded, gently hilly terrain, in which there is a nice paved path that gives you an 8-mile loop around Kent Lake. So, all told, my odometer showed a ride of 21.5 miles, in 1 hours 52 minutes. The map here, while giving a good idea of our ride, is not precise, since I don't yet know Kensington well enough.