Google maps took me on a "bike route" on Saturday which was nothing more than a barely discernible tire track for half a mile through an overgrown, muddy pasture. I looked at it and thought, "nope", but then decided to try it anyway. First thing I did was wipe out on the muddy track and take a spill into the grass beside it. Turns out that the field was using the mud bike track as a kind of a drainage ditch and a steady stream of water was running right beneath the surface of the mud, and I had zero traction.

Kind of fun though. I did the rest of the path at about 3 miles an hour, riding the brake the whole way. My poor tires were spitting off globs of mud for the next 5 miles once I hit the asphalt again.

Ended up finding a beautiful little lake right in the middle of Dallas at the end of the bike trail. White Rock Lake. Beautiful place with 9 1/2 miles of hardtop bike trails all around the shore: