Today Jeff and I met at the Bloomfield Hills public library and then rode down to the Cranbrook campus. I suggested we ride through Cranbrook because I had never been there before. However almost immediately after we rode through the gates we found ourselves at a dead-end by the tennis courts. So we decided to ride up a little trail off-road, which our bikes definitely were not designed for. Nevertheless we managed to do okay, including a seriously steep climb on soft dirt, until we ran into wooden stairs and had to carry the bikes. But we managed to find our way back into the heart of campus, which is beautiful- the buildings are a combination of arts & crafts and international style- very cool. Plus there's a good size hill just after the Woodward entrance and I was able to hit a little over 31 mph heading down.
Afterwards we just sort of tooled around Bloomfield Hills. I was struck by two phenomenons: first the number of houses for sale (not a surprise) and two, the number of houses under construction including some massive houses (which was a little surprising). I guess some people really aren't affected at all by the recession.
Anyway it was a nice casual ~75 minute ride in the wind and a good prep for tomorrow's long ride.
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