Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
I'm gonna guess it was never fully closed-- just maybe tough to get through
Yeah, "passable" was understating it. It's more "frustrating enough to warrant making different plans"
as 20 people covered that segment today, but only 31 for the whole week (since Monday).
Yes, seems people gave it a pass this week but tried today - the kind of data I'd be looking for, though that part is influenced by perception.
One guy went at it at a decent clip today
Today's leader looks to have then gone and played on the Sprain mountain bike trails, which might explain why a little mud didn't slow him much.
Actually, the more I look at the rides, most people crossing that segment were just really slow today. Like 8-10mph ride averages.
Yeah, my last dry-weather time wouldn't look too shabby compared to today's board, and that was on a unicycle with at least two dismounts and some walking before I got back on again...
I'm thinking the thing to do would be to track people who ride it a lot, but note when they have rides that have the southernmost paved section north of the NYC line but bypass the dirt in the park by taking the segment on Broadway instead, and even more so rides that do go through the dirt segment in the park, but are far slow than those same rider's usual times.
But it's not clear that there's any way to get historic times for a rider, other than by grabbing the day's leaderboard on an ongoing basis for the north and south versions of the Old Put's dirt, Broadway, and the next section of the paved South County.
Fortunately I expect watching the moderately fast roadies and the regular commuters (who are most likely to show up in the leaderboard) would be the most informative for tracking changes in conditions over time. Random one-time riders don't give much data, since there's no way to know how fast they'd be on it in ideal conditions.