u/BetFlipper34

I’m thinking of doing the beginning of the williamette valley bikeway tomorrow. I don’t love cars so I was thinking of starting in the early morning from Chqmpoeg park.
Do you guys think this is a good plan for being able to avoid cars best possible?

Any other routes you’d recommend on an early Saturday morning?

I’ve done banks and Vernonia and other trails but I’m training for the Oregon 70.3 and want to be able to ride on a smooth road and not have to deal with much stopping for others/switch backs/ elevation etc.

I do most of my training indoors on my trainer but want to get out for a few rides.

Also if anyone wants to join for a safety in numbers approach, let me know. I’m targeting about 18 mph (at least according to my garmin) for 2 hours and 45 minutes then doing a run after (probably about 9:20 pace for hour and 10 minutes)

I think this time and bike pace would keep us safely out of Salem where I’ve heard the bikeway can become kinda sketchy.

Just including pace if anyone is in similar boat

I went to a grocery store to get "Congrats on 1 Million Views" to jokingly celebrate my dad's dumb tiktok reaching that view count. And this is what I got. The penmanship + the "cograts" and "millon"... not sure which is worse.

When you finally make a schedule that doesn’t have you playing wazzu twice a year and every team starts boycotting playing Texas tech (your 2nd game of the year)