Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Biking Topeka's Shunga Creek Trail - 2008

In August, I had to blog on WordPress because Blogger had locked me out. So in "honor" of our already harsh winter weather, I've decided to move some of those warm-weather posts from WordPress to here.

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In 2008, we again biked the wonderful Shunga Creek Trail in Topeka - a trail we discovered last year and which I blogged about here. Last year we ate first, then biked, which put us on the trail as dusk fell, cutting our ride short. This year we biked immediately upon arriving in Topeka which allowed us to do the entire 15 mile round trip ride...



... and permitted us to play a bit on the BMX track along the trail. Here's Ellen attacking a group of moguls/hills...



... and below I finish up on the final series of "bumps." We joined about 6 teens and pre-teens who seemed amazed at the 2 old farts acting like kids and having a ball on the moguls!



See last year's post for more info on this trail, which is well-shaded, concrete in its entirety, and which has underpasses at all street crossings. I did notice on a map today that the name of the creek is actually Schunganunga - probably a Shawnee word since much in this area carries the name Shawnee.


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