The Rides

If you wondered if there was a Thursday ride, given the threat of rain and the persistent wind, why yes there was.  Not a lot of people showed up, only 19 but they did ride albeit a shorted version of the scheduled summer solstice route which can be seen below.

Mike McClinche has a new bike, a BH so now the ranks are growing of BH users, Mike, Peggy C and me.  OK, "ranks" is a bit of an over statement.

Weather radar showed some small cells and everyone bought into the, "it's all moving away from us." story but alas that was not the case.

Kristie and Amanda wearing their game faces and somewhat matching jerseys.

The peloton rolls out into the cloudy, windy (tail at this point) and soon to be misty evening but the precip did not exceed the mist level and the group got around ok. Now....

….Saturday.  I was late arriving in Canal Winchester for a group ride that was going to follow Tuesday's Summer Solstice route of 55 miles which of course included the ascent of Revenge Road.  I think my longest ride in the last month was 35 miles so I was rather worried about this ride. Above, Kenda Janet crests the end of Cedar Hill Road with Paul close behind.

Our group of 9 included Kevin H, aka Pepe LaPew and beyond him Carlos and Ron to go with Ryan, Jeff S and....

…..the Rossi tandem. The group split in two and those that wanted a faster pace took off, which was good.  At mile 35 we discovered.....

…..a new market at the bottom of Delmont Road has opened.   But, they do not allow you to use the rest room so when ya got to go ya got to go and a few people visited the back of the building.  Probably over time they will reverse the rest room use policy.

A decent selection of what we typically buy and they make sandwiches too!  Finished with 55 miles, 2300' of climbing, a paltry 16.9 average and a realization that time off the bike has consequences.  Yeah, who doesn't know that.