Kevin, Jake and I just got back from a 2 day round trip to Louisville. We left about 7am Friday morning. Spent the night in Louisville and returned the next day arriving back in Indianapolis about 10:30pm. It was about 125 miles each way. As part of this trip, we found a nice route to Columbus that we will use for a future trip. Our route involved country roads after we got outside Indianapolis until we reached Columbus and then the rest of the trip was down rt. 31. There were no big hills and we road geared bikes so that made the trip easier but its still a very long way for one day.
I was very stiff and sore (you can guess the parts) when we got to Louisville which caused me some concern about the second day. As it turns out, we rode faster the second day than the first. We visited a great bike shop in Louisville and this town looks to be a very bike friendly city. we had fantastic weather and overall, it was a great trip.
Could you post a summary of the routes you took from Indy to Columbus? Cheers!
ReplyDeleteSeadog, I'll post the route tonight.
ReplyDeleteI might want to do this next time as I'm from new Albany which is next to Clarksville which where 31 runs thru. Which way thru clarksville did you take as 31 becomes a highway there
ReplyDeleteWe took Louis and Clark to Eastern and then Spring st and finally 7th over to the bridge. Full route coming.
ReplyDeleteGoogle map of the louisville trip
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