Very nasty storm just rolled through here and is now hitting Canal. While it may not be raining at 6:00, the aftermath of flooded streets and more rain coming in later makes cancelling the ride an easy call. See you all next Tuesday. I received a call from one of the New Albany Yankees, who made the very good point that more of them would drive down to dominate if they could load the route on their ultra expensive and deluxe super computers. So, here is the link to the A route and also note, due to flooding, Waterloo is closed so the "Ridewith GPS" route shows a different exit out of Canal: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2834358 Here it is, a route of such fantastic awesomeness that it will bring tears to your eyes. It's the type of route that Shannon Kurek would create if he had even a modicum of imagination. Not too hilly, not too flat, just right...... One note, I forgot to mark out a C route but it should be easy enough to figure out by the Dean of C group, Steve Hewitt.
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Fishing!
7/9/2013 04:33:53 am
Got a boat and I'm going fishing!
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Rain woman
7/9/2013 06:00:21 am
Hope you catch something! yeah not looking too great for an outdoor ride.
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Die-hard bicycling passion
7/9/2013 01:06:40 pm
A young lady and I showed up early at Canal and studied the radar and concluded we might get lucky with a break by 6:00 pm. Turned out to be a little delayed, but the rain had moved out before 6:30 pm. So, we took off on our bikes, starting to follow Mark W's course, stripping off our jackets after a couple of miles, and enjoying the lack of rain. We were not bothered by the wet roads, and enjoyed a nice relaxing pace, doing a little exploring southwest of Canal. Before the ride ended, we had ridden on a couple of roads new to us and enjoyed some nice scenery. Marcy was closed east of Winchester, which forced us back to Winchester, where we experienced our only light rain for a half mile. Other than that, we stayed dry and warm and finished up before another little light rain burst with 31 miles. We rewarded ourselves with a fine meal at Shades and reflected on how great it was that we had come down to ride. What can we say, the bicycling passion burns fiercely....
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Mark
7/10/2013 12:03:46 am
Good story. Thanks for sharing.
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