I didn’t really have a plan for my ride. I knew several of my normal trails are closed for light rail construction. My general plan was to do my normal 12ish mile loop. When I got towards the Greenway I realized that I didn’t have anything specific to be home for so I went West instead of East. Then the detours started!! I wasn’t exactly sure where I was and then I recognized that I was close to Aquila Park which is on the Cedar Lake Bike Trail.\u00a0 Minnetonka Blvd continued to have bike lanes so I decided to stay on that for awhile! Eventually I realized that I was paralleling the Lake Minnetonka Regional Trail. That would end in Excelsior or make a super long loop.\u00a0 I eventually stopped at a map and double checked and found a cut-off that would work and took 101 all the way to the Luce Line. This also went over Lake Minnetonka at Gray’s Bay and I’ve done that a few times before too!! The Luce Line had some construction as well, but I was able to ride through the first part of it. Then instead of turning to stay on the Luce Line in Golden Valley I went straight on Plymouth and ended up catching the detour and making it home!! So much construction. It was a great morning to be out riding and it was nice to have no where to be and nothing to worry about. The only problem really was that I only brought a bottle of water and one energy waffle. I felt fine during the ride, but did eat the waffle around the halfway mark when I was at Gray’s Bay and I had stopped for the picture and texted the family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I didn’t really have a plan for my ride. I knew several of my normal trails are closed for light rail construction. My general plan was to do my normal 12ish mile loop. When I got towards the Greenway I realized that I didn’t have anything specific to be home for so I went West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[624],"tags":[771],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike","tag-bike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190525_120218_563.jpg?fit=2160%2C2160&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-1Rn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3437,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/lake-minnetonka-via-bike\/","url_meta":{"origin":7153,"position":0},"title":"Lake Minnetonka via Bike","author":"crossn81","date":"June 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning I rode the 17 miles to the Deephaven part of Lake Minnetonka before heading to Medicine Lake and home for a total of 44.5 miles for the day. 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