Friday, July 17th rides

[7rider]

I played hookey from work today to go for a ride out of Potomac MD to Sugarloaf Mtn with three other friends. Weather cooperated for the most part - a few drops of rain, passed through a few cool spots. Wow.
I climbed Sugarloaf - and thought of Pfunk12 chasing Karim up that mtn the other week. Not one to take such a remote and un-issued challege lying down, I tried to keep up a good pace of my own up the mtn, but thought I was going to .... well, be sick... by the top. I could hear Phill Liggett in my head noting that I had just "popped!"
One amazing thing I realized... I ride this one road north to south almost ever Saturday with my group ride. Today, I rode that same road from south to north. It was like riding a completely different road! I saw houses and things along the road that I NEVER saw before! It was amazing. Do you ever experience that - ride a familar road in a new direction and have it look completely different?
A bit over 59 miles. Oh, and the skies opened up (briefly) right as we were driving away from the parking lot where we started! Perfect.