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The above image encapsulates exactly what it\u2019s like to run on the Silver Comet trail, which is a super awesome run\/bike trail here in the Metro Atlanta area that basically stretches from the outskirts of the city and supposedly connects all the way west, to almost the Alabama state line.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great trail for people of all skill and experience levels, because it has so many points of access, people can use it for leisurely walks, lengthy excursions or just to train or casually exercise on.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve always used it as a place to train up for long runs, as well as my preferred location to do any of the longer, numerous virtual runs that I always sign up for in order to add to my running medal collection, and it really is a wonderful trail because it\u2019s fairly flat, completely shaded by trees which helps in even the hottest of summers, and there are multiple break points for people to rest, get water and take bathroom breaks if needed.<\/span><\/p>\n However, my only real criticism of the Silver Comet trail, isn\u2019t something that can really be controlled, and is actually something that I\u2019ve gripe-brogged about in the past<\/a>, which is all the fucking bicyclists on the trail who think they own the entire thing, and go around flying down the path at 30+ mph, screaming ON YOUR LEFT all the time as if they were getting paid a quarter every time they had to wail it out.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, thanks to the Silver Comet, I fucking hate bicyclists, more than the times when I used to have to traverse around the city and had to share the roads with all the hipsters on their fixed gears clogging up lanes.\u00a0 And to be more specific it\u2019s not all bicyclists, and it\u2019s not even the mega-tryhards that act like they\u2019re participating in the Tour de France with their matching uniforms and barely existent thin-ass aluminum bicycles.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s the weekender bicyclists who think they\u2019re on Lance Armstrong\u2019s level when he was roided up to the gills, who are usually by themselves or with 1-2 other douchebag weekenders, who get on the trail and act like the whole thing belongs to them.\u00a0 They\u2019re the ones who are incessantly screaming ON YOUR LEFT to everyone as if they\u2019re taxicabs in F-Zero<\/em>, strategically placed just to ruin their day when they\u2019re the ones in fact ruining everyone else\u2019s day by being entitled assholes, hogging the entire trail for themselves and screaming at everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, real pro-tryhard bicyclists for one, travel in large packs, but also have been doing what they do long enough to understand that all other travelers on the trail are not stupid, blind or deaf, all at the same time, and don\u2019t hardly ever spam ON YOUR LEFT, unless they have a reason, like some dumbass who\u2019s swerving along the trail.\u00a0 The weekenders scream at everyone as if it\u2019s their problem that they haven\u2019t noticed that the people in front of them 100 yards away have maintained their lines and paces, and need to be reminded to watch out for them, while they travel at speeds, which in a car would definitely kill a pedestrian, but on a bicycle could be pretty lethal too.<\/span><\/p>\n For real though, weekender bicyclists are the god damn worst.\u00a0 Nothing pockmarks a good run session than any time some bicycle douche screams ON YOUR LEFT and whizzes past me way too close to comfort when I\u2019m already running on the edge of the trail, because it\u2019s slightly flatter than the slight slope which is meant to control water on the surface from pooling aboard.\u00a0 It\u2019s like these cocksuckers all think I actually can pull over to the right any more than I already am at to convenience them, and they\u2019re really lucky I just don\u2019t stick my arm out and start clotheslining from hell every shithead who thinks they\u2019re going to win the Tour de Douchebag.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d say as much as I loved being able to get back out onto the Silver Comet for the first time in nearly three years over the Labor Day weekend, that the weekend bicycle douchefucks were the worst thing about my run, it actually turns out that my 10K time crept over the 60-minute mark that I so fervently try to stay underneath.\u00a0 At 61:14, I\u2019m glad I was able to complete a 10K without any difficult laboring, but I\u2019m pretty dissatisfied that it took me over an hour to accomplish.\u00a0 I can\u2019t use a lack of training as an excuse this time, considering I\u2019ve been fairly consistent with my maintenance running over the last year, so I guess this is just a sign of age starting to catch up with me, and that I have to make some actual changes if I want to get my speed back up.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The above image encapsulates exactly what it\u2019s like to run on the Silver Comet trail, which is a super awesome run\/bike trail here in the Metro Atlanta area that basically stretches from the outskirts of the city and supposedly connects all the way west, to almost the Alabama state line.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great trail for … Continue reading The joys of running on the Silver Comet Trail 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