Must be the Time of Year?!

Saturday morning saw several of us heading out on the Back Door Loop under chilly, sunny skies. It was cool enough to wear a vest and arm warmers, but Left Lane was donning just a sleeveless jersey. He and some of the others may have wished for warmer attire. The pace was a bit frisky for the temperature. We rolled down Jackson and then Lillian Hwy at 20mph+. Some of the guys were doing beastly pulls into a mild headwind. We cruised across Dog Track and onto Gulf Beach Hwy to the back door of NAS.

The guard just waved us through...first time that ever happened. Usually they want at least a government issued photo identification, (GIPI), and sometimes they want to pat you down for pipe bombs, bazookas, handheld missile launchers, etc. But ever since that guard frisked Coolio, they just wave us through...

Must have something to do with lycra.

The pace slowed significantly as we paraded through the base. We stopped at a sunny corner by the golf course for the "pause that refreshes". Once back in the saddle we headed for the front door and the Fried Oreo Sprint. (I had incorrectly announced this as the Fried Twinkie Sprint (Navy Point Bridge) in a previous post...although it doesn't really matter it's all fried!) Anyway, the Fried Oreo Sprint is at the north end of the NAS Bridge and Left Lane, not being willing to be out done on anything fried, won the FOS easily...uh, nobody else actually went after it. Yep, the Fried Oreo Sprint is Left Lane, or FOSILL...yeah, that about sums him up.

And talk about awards; Carroll Ann Chandler hammered with the big dogs the entire ride. For this she is awarded the weekly Shebeast Award! Congrats to the lovely Mrs Woodrow Boodrow!

The rides have not been very well attended. I guess it must be the time of year. Perhaps tonight we will have a bit larger group. We leave promptly at 5:33pm because of the lack of daylight. In fact, you may want to at least have a rear flashing light for these few evening rides before the time change in about 10 days. The Saturday morning ride times will change in November as well. We move the time back to the 8am hour starting on Saturday November 6. This week however we will still be starting at 7am for the Pine Forest Loop.

Please check the Rides Calendar at the bottom of this blogulation for more details.

And I will...

See you out on the road,
Bob