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	<title>The Trail Rookie</title>
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		<title>Rookie mistake narrowly averted&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, two weeks ago I stopped at Kmart to get a portable bike pump, thinking that some day I might get a flat.  Someday, after owning my bike for eight years, came today.  Amazing and lucky timing.
So.  From a rookie perspective, here is the deal with changing a flat, in order of importance.
1.  Buy a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=73</link>
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		<title>C&amp;O Towpath &#8211; First Try</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, for work I occasionally have to go to Washington DC.  This time, the timing and weather worked out to allow me to explore a local trail.  I had two choices.
The first is the Washington &#38; Old Dominion Trail which runs through Northern Virginia, quite close to where I was staying for my work thing.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Meadville is a fine town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a nice day and a Saturday without plans coincide.  And I&#8217;m off for the first bike ride (northern bike ride) of the year, and I kept it local today, stretching my legs out on the Ernst Trail.  However, Google Maps&#8217; recent addition of bicycle directions inspired me to address the following flaw in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Spring brings maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is around the corner.  Every day when I walk outside and see the snow melt, I think about the state of the trails and where I plan to go this season.
Google has helped to make this task a little easier with their new mapping feature in Google Maps, directions for bicyclists.  I think it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Hello, New Castle&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Impressive.  The Stavich Bike Trail is back.
With wife and little man off visiting relatives prior to Thanksgiving, I decided to give this unsung trail another shot.  I tried going down in May after being really sick and only got about five miles in when I ran into a construction crew repaving.  But, good news, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=60</link>
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		<title>South to Maryland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a conference in Harrisburg last week, so I took the opportunity to look on trail link for a good trail, and boy did I find one.
There is a single continuous crushed stone trail running roughly 45 miles from York PA down to Hunt Valley MD on the northern outskirts of Baltimore, the Heritage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=57</link>
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		<title>I ♥ the Niagara Escarpment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it goes back to when I was twelve or so, and we drove through Ontario.  On our way north on the QEW, I watched the hillside in the distance &#8211; the Niagara Escarpment.  It&#8217;s one of the neatest topographical features I&#8217;ve seen, stretching across southern Ontario, just pretty much one long steep hill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Allegheny Valley Trail &#8211; The Gold Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had perfect weather today, so I took a nice 31 mile ride on my favorite trail hands down, AVTA&#8217;s Allegheny River Trail.  I know, I know&#8230; I sung the praises of the Sandy Creek Trail in an earlier post, and that is the best, mile-for-mile trail I&#8217;ve ever been on, the Allegheny trail is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=39</link>
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		<title>State Parks Under Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First &#8211; The biking story:
It was a beautiful day today, and I got a chance to get home early.  Wife was in a good mood and she&#8217;s gotten the chance to get out and about quite a bit recently, so she told me to go biking before dinner, so I headed down to Goddard State [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=34</link>
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		<title>Google Bike Trails?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[USA Today had an interesting article today about Google taking its street view off-road and recording bike trails.  I&#8217;m not a huge fan of street view for privacy reasons, but I&#8217;ve been known to scout out a hotel on street view just to get a sense of the neighborhood, particularly industry or railroad tracks nearby.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailrookie.org/?p=32</link>
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