{"id":455,"date":"2021-08-06T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acrossthemapwithmatt.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-08-06T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T01:36:44","slug":"jewet-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acrossthemapwithmatt.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Jewet Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was packed up by 5:30. Today’s riding was going to be mostly on roads and its is supposed to get hot. I wanted an early start to do the majority of the miles while it was still cool. I needed to cross the ohio River but I wasn’t allowed on route 22. It was a limited access highway. Route 2 is where I needed to be and that was 2 exits away on route 22. I put Market Street Bridge into Google maps and followed for over 3 miles with 400 feet of elevation gain. The road was a dead end in a land fill. So 6.8 miles later I was back to where started. So much for my early start. I thought it was going to be difficult. I had asked 5 or 6 local cyclist at the trail head and none of them knew how to get there either.This time I used a paper map. It was a lot more miles but finaly I got to and then crossed the bridge into Steubenville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bummed around the city for a couple hours. At the park I cooked some oatmeal and eggs. Its advertised as the city of murals and each one was numbered. I saw a few of them but none were easy to take pictures of due to buildings or parked vehicles <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mural 11 I think<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By the time I left Steubenville it was in the 80s. Leaving town was a long uphill that I had to push a lot of. Near the top was a laundromat that looked pretty new. The hope of A.C. had me wheeling in. When I opened the door it was like walking into a refrigerator. It felt so nice. I refilled my bottles at the water fountain and sat there for a half hour. I guess I walked more then I should have wearing my cycling shoes. I had some hot spots and knew blisters were forming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bike shoes aren’t made for walking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was on rt 43. For a most the way there was no shoulder and traffic was pretty bad so I rode the sidewalk. I wasn’t going much faster then a walk anyways. The walkway was in real bad shape. Some sections were heaved up creating a 2″ or 3″ inch lip I had to ride over. I was worried about breaking a spoke or bending a rim so at first I would almost stop and gently roll over them. After the first several dozen of these lips and drop offs I quit trying to be gentle and would hit them at whatever speed I was going. It was hard on my bike and hard on me. Every one would send a jolt to my wrist and elbows.This went on for nearly 5 miles but no damage was done to my bike. I can’t say the same about me lol my wrist are swollen and elbows hurt but im sure a good night’s sleep will fix that. I stopped at a Goodwill to use the restroom and refill my water bottles. It was just a single room that had a locking door. When I took my bottles out to my bike I grabbed my soap and washcloth went back in, locked the door got undressed and took a “bath”. I even remembered a zip lock to put the washcloth in so I didn’t have a wet pocket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thought Ohio was flat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I got into Jewet around 7 pm and got on the Conotton Creek trail. I rode a few more miles and stopped for the night. I was beat and ready for bed. Not so much from the mileage but from the elevation. A little over 2000 feet according to my garmin bike computer. I know that really isn’t very much but I’m out of shape. The rail trails I usually ride have spoiled me! I was too tired to cook so I just spread peanut butter on whole wheat tortillas and ate that. The view from my dinner table more then made up for the spartan meal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View while eating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was lots of wildflowers along the trail. Emerson once said “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”. And Mac Davis even sang a song titled Stop and Smell the Roses. I know these aren’t roses but I stopped and smelled them anyway. Actually I just took a picture. There was so many the air already smelled of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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