Seg #44 Lake Heffner Trail & McArthur Ave, OKC 9/16/14 Homatex

Seg #44 Lake Heffner Trail & McArthur Ave, OKC  9/16/14 

Start	Lake Heffner (S) OKC	N 35.53141 W 97.60099	N-S miles 11.5
End	McArth&W'loo OKC	N 35.72595 W 97.62061	Trl lgth 17.4mi Ride17.3mi

Ride hr 1:20

AVS 8.6

MXS  mph 20.3

DST17.3 mi

Tmp 87

Kcal 1040

Several of the Oklahoma trails particularly in Tulsa
and Oklahoma City had interstate-like paths, where
non-bicyclists were able stroll on one path, while
bikes were free to fly down wide, well marked trails
as is shown above.

I got to Lake Heffner in Oklahoma City in the mid-afternoon. If I rode faster than my eight mile per hour average and called a cab to get back to my car, running out of light was not an issue. And that was pretty much the way it went. It was hot (89) but I had a tail wind so I made good time without becoming exhausted. In fact, I had enough light to do a section of the Katy Trail after Lake Heffner. In order to meet my goal of overlapping the next northern latitude, I needed to ride McArthur Avenue north of the Lake Heffner trail to Waterloo Road. Initially there was a small shoulder and sparse traffic but after a couple miles, the shoulder shrunk and the traffic increased. I had to ride four miles on a street that I felt unsafe. I was just glad I called a cab get back to the car. 

Here I am at a rural animal feed distributor. Milling around
this business brought back my farm days buying chicken
feed from the Carroll Roller Mills in Carroll, Iowa

It was fairly rural by the time I got to the designated latitude straight west of Edmond, Oklahoma. To get an address for the taxi, I had to ride back to D.C. Feeds. The cabby was from Bangladeshi. He joined the guys from Cario, Nigeria and Senegal. All of the managers and desk clerks were from India. What small world we live in.