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Saturday Ride Report, Borrowing One from Tym Tyler

5/10/2013

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Ten of us showed up in Granville.  Today's route was to follow Tym Tyler's Licking County Humane ride route.  Since I've signed up for the ride (May 18th got to www.tacosports.org to sign up), I thought it would be ok to pull the route off "ridewithgps" and follow the very helpful pink arrows found on the road.  The day got off to a bad start while sitting in my car adjusting clothing, Steve O began banging on my window.  He wanted to borrow a jacket for the ride and borrow a brown belt for use later at a retirement party he was to attend.  This put me off my routine and I placed my car keys on the passenger seat.  There they stayed until after I locked the car and discovered the keys were not with me.  Fortunately, being only 5 miles from my house, it was a problem easily solved after the ride.
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Crazy George rolled in, along with Dustin, Brian, Dirty Dan, Jeff S, Flyin Tuna, Corvair, Steve O and Mark C.  We shoved off, not realising that Mark C was in the rest room but he eventually caught up.  Temperature was hovering in the low 50's and sptting a little rain so I put on my rain jacket prior to the start.  Big mistake.
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George dropped back fairly quickly as we followed a good route with some new roads. However, after only 20 miles, some of us decided we had had enough and they gathered on one corner with the balance of the group on the opposite.  Each of these guys should have a capital "L" on their forehead for abandoning so soon.  Really not a surprise other than Dustin being with them. Old Chubbs is still a shadow of his old self but with the next 5 months of no work and all play, that will change quickly.
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We got on to I think Mary Furnace Road, which is kind of sketchy but if you stay alert it is fine and rolled into Wilkens Corner.  Pies were for sale and there was some talk of taking the scissors to Flyin Tuna's jersey to convert 3 pockets into one so we could fit a pecan and apple pie in there.  We got back on the road, rolling through Hanover while I began to lose enthusiasm for the ride.  Wind, clouds, cold and my jersey was soaked from wearing the non breathing rain jacket and well, I gave Corvair the map at a food stop then rode alongside Dan and told him what were my plans, asking him to keep quiet for 100 yards and then bolted out of the group heading west.  Finished with 55 miles and found the replacement set of keys once back home.  I hear the others finished with 65 miles as they too had cut the route a little short.  One thing for sure, we had no regrets about not being able to to TOSRV.  Yikes, that wind on Sunday out of the west must have made for an interesting day.
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Corvair
5/13/2013 12:32:14 am

Sorry to hear your rain jacket had a part in your decision to shortcut. Cindy was very surprised that you bailed so soon! There was some argument as to how much we climbed, but I had 69 miles at the finish, Cindy said we climbed 4700 feet.

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Marty
5/13/2013 08:20:59 am

We had a group of hardy souls meet up at the capitol building Saturday morning at 8am for the traditional TOSRV day ride down to Chillicothe and back. It works out to 50 miles down and 50 miles back and is almost flat. We maybe had 25+ riders show up this year, that was a lot less than last year but still pretty good considering the weather.

It started to rain lightly and we had wet roads about half way down. I think I would have turned back if not with the group. That is why it is important for everyone to continue riding with the group. If we would have seen one guy bail out I think it would have led to a stampede of riders heading back. We need to not just think of ourselves, but to think of others when fighting the urge to bail out.

We met up with plenty of the TOSRV riders along the way, many would join us for a few miles. We picked up local rider Rob Rhodes at some point and he would go off the front and stir the pot. He had a friend with an Olympus kit that looked like he was in great shape but he would usually be mid pack and would fall off and everyone would need to close the gap around him. Somehow the Olympus guy would always catch back on. I am not sure if this was a coordinated effort but it worked well at thinning the group.

We stopped for snacks in Chillicothe and returned on the same route. We were all exhausted when we arrived back at the capitol building and happy that we stayed the course. Just like last year the civil war re-enactment fair was going on when we arrived and they thoroughly startled us again with their cannon just after we arrived.

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Anon
5/13/2013 10:23:52 pm

Have you considered riding a different route back from Chillicothe out of consideration for the safety of the TOSRV riders still on the route?

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