The Silver Comet trail is over 61 miles long, and starts near Mavell Road in Smyrna, Georgia. It ends at the Georgia/Alabama state line, near Cedartown and Esom.
At the Georgia/Alabama state line, the Silver Comet connects to the 33-mile long Chief Ladiga Trail. Plans are underway to extend the Chief Ladiga an additional 7 miles. Both the Silver Comet Trail and Chief Ladiga are fully paved rail-trails built on abandoned railroad lines. The combined Silver Comet and Chief Ladiga trail length is estimated to be over 100 paved miles from Smyrna, Georgia to Anniston, Alabama.
Today was my second visit to this trail. Since the Atlanta September floods the trail has been closed about 15.33 miles from its start in Smyrna, GA. After riding it from there and back for a total of 30.66 miles I still had a full red power LED left. For those of you that remember my first posting, that is an improvement – which means either I’m pedaling more or I weight less. I’ll take either one of them. No- I will not weight myself (don’t want to play the dehydration game) – but I can see that my belts are now one notch in the proper direction of travel and my shorts now require a belt. This is in less than two months and with a couple of down times due to a blown rear hub (the day after my ride from work) and a flat. The silver lining during those two events was that I used my old bike with 100% green pedal power for about 8 miles each time.
This time around after riding the trail I didn’t visit the Brazilian churrasqueria…
Total miles about 251 (all hilly miles)