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Montour Junction to Junction Station and Back Again

Published on by brie · 2 min read

I biked 38.2 miles today on my 🍵 Green Tea bike.

✨ About this Ride

What an awesome ride! That was definitely the toughest ride I’ve done so far and I’m really pleased with my performance!

I started at Montour Trail’s origins in Coraopolis for a few reasons:

  • maximize ride time by minimizing drive time
  • a desire to get very used to riding Montour Trail

I have a big picture goal of being able to bike from Coraopolis (where I live) to Weirton, West Virginia one day. To support that goal, I want to become very familiar with the portions of Montour I’d traverse on that route.

On today’s ride, I achieved another goal that I’d had in mind: ride form Montour mile zero to the Montour Panhandle Trail Connector!

⛰️ The Climbs

On the return ride, I knew that I just had to make it to Boggs and then I would be golden. I have dubbed the five mile stretch from Fort Cherry to Boggs the Montour Roller Coaster for reasons that might be apparent if you take a look at the elevation change:

🌇 Back to Zero

Dusk had arrived as my ride ended. Losing the light offered some additional motivation to get to the trailhead I started at as quickly as possible.

🖼️ Photos

Ride photo

You can view the ride on fitness.by.brie.dev or on Strava (if we’re friends).

🎧 Soundtrack

You can see the songs I listened to during this ride on effortly.


🤖 Parsed from Strava Data

The content in this section is automatically generated based on data sent to Strava.

💬 Description

🎧 Playlist: https://effortly.run/activity/15171106108/

📊 Stats and Route Info

  • 👍 Kudos | 💬 Comments
  • ⏱️ Moving Time: 03:24:53
  • 📏 Distance: 38.2 miles
  • ⛰️ Elevation Gain: 843ft
  • 📍 Start: 40.504048, -80.144833 (View on Map)
  • 📍 End: 40.504005, -80.144822 (View on Map)
  • 🔋 Average Speed: 11.2 mph
  • 🚀 Max Speed: 29.7 mph

👑 Segment Efforts

  • Start - Mile 1: 00:05:59 (Top 3)

  • Start - Mile 1.5: 00:08:56 ()

  • Start - Mile 3: 00:15:59 (Top 3)

  • Start - Mile 5: 00:28:31 (Top 3)

  • Start - Mile 8.5: 00:47:22 (Top 3)