Well, Day Five in the heat and I kinda hit the wall today. I rode the old Loomis route and 26 miles was it for me today. Tired in general.

So the news here is that they are messing with my routes now by making changes in Greenfield Park.

The detour I have to take is now actually all torn up as well. What a mess, and there is no escaping it. But that's not the biggest problem. They're changing the road system in the park!

OK, while heading out of the park....past the lagoon and a right turn at picnic area one....instead of that road taking you into that wooded area, the new road just stops there! They have added curbing, meaning all you can do is go into a parking lot from there now. I jumped off the bike and walked down the dirt and gravel to the old road, which is all messed up as usual. Then at the end of it...same thing....the old road ends and there is a nice new road in the exact spot where my sister crashed last year. Only trouble is you can't get on that road! Again, there is curbing into a parking lot only.

In other words, the section of old road in the woods there is now completed isolated and impassable. I'm not sure what the heck they are going to do with that. There IS a break in the curbing at both ends of the street where the new stuff starts, so maybe it will end up just for bikes? Or maybe it will just be torn out and cease to exist I fear.

This is an issue for me since this portion of my ride has to be taken for all of the following routes I use:

Loomis--Three Bridges--7-Mile Rd.--Whitnall Crit--Botanical Crit

Yikes. The only route this does not effect is the New Berlin trail to the west. We'll see.

Just tired today in general, and despite the sun and heat, wasn't really all that much into it today, so I made sure to cut it short....just enough to get a taste and make it five days in a row this week. It's been a great week of hot-weather riding.

There was debate last year about the road through the park, and one proposal was to make it a bike lane. Well, "normal" people could use it too, I suppose.