Bicycling in Bloomington

My period of little bicycling continues. It’s been more than three weeks since I last did a long ride. Yesterday (Sunday), I didn’t ride because I was in Louisville watching my daughter participate in the Louisville Ironman. She finished and I am very happy for her. She’s been training for a year. In earlier posts, I described some rides we did as part of her training.

While she was on the bicycle segment, my son-in-law and I rode between two points of the course to cheer for her. The ride was about five miles each direction. We were on a rural road and the traffic was relatively heavy. More importantly, the vehicles were going very fast. I appreciate riding Bloomington more after the experience.

We also rode most of the run segment (2 out and back loops on the same street). The course was on a wide street with wide sidewalks. While I rarely ride on sidewalks, we did on Sunday because we did not want to interfere with the runners. We likely rode an additional 20 miles on the course. It was fun both to ride and to be able to cheer for her especially in the later parts of the “run.” Actually most were walking more than running by that point.

The course was on a wide, 4 lane street with sharrows. In my previous post, I mentioned that I found the sharrows on North Walnut difficult to see and interpret while driving and suggested that a sign would help drivers to interpret the sharrows. Louisville has these signs and I think it’s helpful to drivers.