On again/Off again ride, Nov 8th
What a glorious day for riding on the second Sunday in November! Rita and I got our fair share of it too, as we joined Bob's group at Oregon Ridge at 8 AM. We had quite a mix of machinery show up for the ride, road bikes, cross bikes, touring bikes, a tandem and even one full suspension mountain bike. 102 miles later with group size whittled down a bit we had used up all of the rail trail that there is and were pulling back into the parking lot with headlights and blinkers ablaze. Bob did a superb job of stringing this together and keeping the doses of trail vs road just about right. Very nice group of folks too, notwithstanding their Advanced Stage 5 cycling additions! (eg The couple on the tandem had done a century ride somewhere on Saturday too.) All that was left to do was come home and sleep for 10 hours straight. That felt pretty good.
Andy