Deer Lakes Meandering, with Guys Run and Fox Chapel Road (no map, for reasons that become apparent)

Rode with Chris M today. The intention was to ride up to Deer Lakes Park, and work our way over to Dellenbaugh Road, then hit the Red Belt and Middle Road. Then I forgot the directions and we missed the turn up Little Deer Creek Road. Improvising from there, we rode up Crawford Run, over to Bailey’s Run (I think) then eventually over to Deer Creek. Using my keen (read: horrible) navigational skills, we ended up back on Freeport Road. From there we climbed Guys Run and came back on Fox Chapel Road. I had my usual crack near the top of Guys Run (that hill is about 400 meters longer than my conditioning), but otherwise I felt pretty good. It was good riding with Chris, as the pace was probably a bit higher than I would have maintained on my own.

Odometer read a bit over 42 miles.

Posted on 3 August 2008