Due to the enormous amount of rain we have been seeing in the southeast lately, my road bike has been seeing more use as all of the trails are soaking wet. With no end in sight, it looks like my legs are going to continue to get in some road spinning until mother nature decides to play nice. Weren’t we having something called a drought at some point in time?

Anyways…the increased road riding has given me the time to really test out the mapping features on the new Garmin Edge 705. A couple of friends of mine decided that they wanted to try out a new route on Monday that was a charity ride in our area. Normally, I hate doing new routes or trails without the aid of someone who has ridden it before. I am not a fan of wasting time with a map as we try to figure out if we are actually lost or the next turn is really just at the end of that next hill. Some like the adventure of that kind of riding…I just like to ride. With road routes, you have the increased stress of traffic and even when it is a known route (like this one was for a charity ride with multiple mileage options), you won’t know if it is well marked until you get there.

And from the Blog “Communications from Elsewhere;