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Old 08-06-09 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ElJamoquio
Those of you living in the city - do you think you actually have good training routes? I can't imagine this would be the case, but who knows.
As an example, the group ride that meets (or used to meet; haven't tried them in maybe a year) at Capitol Hill Bikes on Sunday mornings sometimes takes off for Arlington to do hills. Lots of hills. I suck at hills.

The way I see it, to get to where people "train" means doing a warmup ride on the way there. Sure, there's some starts and stops, but it's more fun to ride through traffic on a bike than it is to get stuck in traffic in a car, IMO.
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