Still plugging along

Which is actually significant.  According to my bike log last season's final ride occurred on October 24.

I did not ride on the 24th this year, hockey.  I did ride on the 25th and the 27th though.  So in that one respect the season is much more successful than last year.  Regrettably, in actual miles ridden I still have some work to do.

*sigh*

Because I may be out later than last year but all signs indicate that it won't be long now.  Here is an unmistakable harbinger of the dark season, the hockey boards are up at Langford Park.

That scene is just around the corner from Dead Man's Curve so I took a check in on contruction progress over there.  It appears to be rideable although I don't believe I would try to ride it with all of those workmen present.  They have a job to do after all and it isn't in their conditions of employment to have to dodge around geezer bicyclists while carrying out their tasks.

But the first layer of asphalt has been laid, there no longer is any bare dirt.

They are working on the intersection of Raymond and Energy Park Drive.  We are little concerned that once the intersection is complete construction may continue on down toward the actual double overpass with double turn.  Certainly the pavement down there is a mess but we mostly expect that this is going to be about it for this paving season.  The mess under the overpass will probably be done next year.

Lateness of season didn't stop these guys though.  There used to be large mature trees all the way down the block there in front of the apartment buildings on the right and at the end of the street where now all you can see is a dirt patch.

The new sidewalk is the probable cause of the demise of the mostly cottonwoods along there.  Down at the end there is another leg of new sidewalk coming in along the street leading off to the left.

Very overcast, a little bit too windy, CB 52.

All in all, a pretty nice day to be riding three days after the anniversary of the end of last year's season.