Anyway, here's his latest edition:
Yes the evening rides are over but the weekly Saturday F&S rides continue to be well attended and fantastic rides. The Group did the UWF/Scenic Hills/Pine Forest Loop on what ended up to be a beautiful day for a ride. We pushed the start time to 8:00 to avoid the coldest weather and it seemed the temp was close to 50 degrees around start time and got up around 60 later in the ride. Perfect riding weather, although some showed up looking like they were ready to go on the Iditarod!!! Of course you can always take off as the weather warms up.
Riding were Johnny Bugno, Dana (on his spanking new Bianchi), Lawman Dave Carrol, Nestor, Doug, The Bad Mayo, Retro Dave, Roc Doc Paul, Ron, and The Left Lane. Think that's everyone. We took the usual route out to the hilly UWF loop. As we slammed it down the hill toward the light after the ball field the lead group turned right just as the Left Lane was catching up. I was hitting close to 37 mph and had no choice but to go straight ahead on the usual route. The lead group including Dana, Retro Dave, Nestor & others went down the big hill to the bottom of UWF. As I reached the top of the hill on the regular route, I was going to wait for the others to come back up the hill but when I looked back toward the Commons I saw the group of F&S X-Gamers coming back up through the University on the sidewalks with Retro Dave in the lead!! When I caught up at the Water Tower we talked about the sidewalk route and I admitted that the last time I went down that hill on a solo ride I took the sidewalk route back as well rather than climbing back up L'il Alp D'UWFez!!
After regrouping, the Left Lane led the spirited romp on the downhill heading to Scenic Hill. The group slammed it pretty hard through Screaming Hills (that's what we used to call it when I played high school golf...due to the tight fairways that made you want to scream). The group was pretty much all together as we hit 9 ½ mile road and we had a great ride out to Pine Forrest for our break at Detroit Blvd.
The ride back was pretty uneventful taking the Johnson Avenue route home. As usual Dana was doing most of the work out front. As we worked our way through the neighborhoods around Olive and out to 9th Avenue we were all together heading to the Langley Maygarden Loop. When we got out onto Langley, no one seemed to want to push the pace this early. Ron went out to the front and everyone else was content to let him do some work. The pace picked up going up Spanish and as usual The Lawman came around to the front at the start of Maygarden and put down the hammer to soften up the peloton.
The group of Lawman, Dana, Retro Dave, Nestor, and Bugno put the hammer down dropping Roc Doc and the Left Lane just before the turn at the Air Terminal. The Doc and the Left Lane worked together and pursued valiantly but no chance of catching back up or seeing the final sprint. Rumor has it that Dana saved enough on this day to win the bragging rites for the week on the final sprint with Lawman and Retro nipping at his heels and Bugno and Nestor right there as well. The Left Lane and Roc Doc then rolled in with the others soon following.
Great ride!! A little short from our normal rides with around 37 miles at an average speed of around 17mph. Can't wait to do it again next week.
I got out on my solo rides in the early morning twice last week. If anyone wants to try and join me, let me know. I typically leave East Hill around 5:25 and ride up around Spanish Trail & Summit around 5:45 or so to do the Figure 8.
Thanks for your commentary Left Lane. I'm glad there is someone out there riding who can give us a write up of the latest peloton antics. I really miss that!
If you missed it, don't fret yourself, the F&S group will be heading out again this weekend! Maybe you too can be a part of the paceline on Saturday or the easy cruise around town on Sunday. Either way, it will be good fun!
Hope to, in not the too distant future,
See you out on the road,
Bob
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