#149: Finnish?…so am I.
We (Andrea and I) went out for a longer ride today out of Marquette. We choose a hybrid route looking at numerous roads on my mapmyride.com. The route wasn’t bad, but started out on small highways with too many double (and single) dump trucks.
After winding around to the open pit mining area south of Ispheming, we got on some smaller county roads. Unfortunately, they were pretty rough. Right away on one of the hills, I spotted “feed zone” and then we started to count down the kilometers from 5k to go… at the end, we sprinted for the finish line… well sort of……
I am 50% Finnish by blood, so I felt right at home leading attacking and winning that sprint. Andrea won her share out there including the all important final city limit sign… for the City of Marquette. The cool thing is that right after that city limit sign was one of those speed measuring signs… we ramped it up again and I saw 35 before we past the sign. Not too fast, but we were just putting along on the ride, so it wasn’t too bad.
And finally, as Andrea has already blogged, we ran across a historical landmark. The county road we rode on used to be the US-41 highway. This was first use of a roadway centerline. This concept is familiar to all road racers…the centerline rule.























