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Re: 2005 Tour de France Thread!!!
I've ridden 3 times in a group ride (75-100+ riders) through Alamo Heights and downtown San Antonio, after dark no less. I don't think that particular ride is really my thing, so I will ultimately start opting out of that ride. I bought a mountain bike for a reason, after all, so I plan to get more into trail riding.
McAllister Park here in San Antonio is superb and our current favorite for bike riding since it offers many (25+ miles) of trails, some of which are pretty technical and then plenty of paved riding (streets). We also have ridden the San Antonio Mission trail several times -- paved walking/biking path that takes you to every Spanish mission except the Alamo. Guadalupe River SP is too rocky, so I've only done that one once and we had to bug out after Justin fell several times and I ran over a cacti (with the bike, not my body!)
We've gotten great feedback on riding at Pedernales Falls SP (Wolf Mountain Trail) and the Madrone Trail at Canyon Lake, so those are two more we'll be checking out. As well as O.P. Schnabel in Leon Valley (San Antonio).
Lots of places to ride off roadways, and if you're in a group road riding's a little safer but you have to have a certain mindset and I don't really seem to have it (eg. don't mind sucking exhaust from cars and dealing with the occasional road rage nutcase, don't mind being trapped between a VIA bus and a wall of cars in the other lane, etc.
Biking is superb exercise for my knee -- my hamstrings are coming back slowly (where my new ACL tissue was taken from) and my quads are almost equal between my post-op leg and my normal leg.
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