Originally Posted by
cc_rider
I've been getting a ride in once (sometimes twice) a week since late April. With so many facilities closed, I have to plan my rides based around availability of toilets. Most of my rides have to start from home or my office, and if I want to do more than 1 1/2 hours I have to loop back and start a different loop. Or I drive somewhere close for a short ride and dash back for a toilet. I'm getting bored!
I keep waiting for the NPS and local facilities to reopen, but they're still locked up. Museums still closed. Fast food places doing curbside pickup only.
What have other people been doing on their rides? What facilities are open around DC? I'm tempted to plan my rides around open bike shops on the assumption that they would let me use their restrooms.
Hey CC, been a long time. Hope you are well.
I hear ya on the restrooms. I have been peeing regularly in the woods.No way around it. I have also been semi-dehydrating myself. Keeping my drinking to a minimum. It is tough as I use to have an iron clad bladder. If you are sweating a lot then you wont be peeing as much, its a fine balance. Living in the western burbs of Baltimore I have the Patapsco park nearby, BWI trail as well as the B&A trail, lots of tree cover. I was just in DC a for a ride, visit the National Aquatic Gardens and even had a beer but was able to wait until I returned to a more woodland setting.
COme on up to B-more for a ride
Good Luck,
Charlie