Routeslip wouldn't let me save the route after editing it to add in the cue sheet info, so here it is instead.

Start at Patuxent Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center off Powder Mill Road in Laurel
Go back to Powder Mill Road
Right on Powder Mill Road (1.67 miles)
Right on Route 197 (2.4 miles)
Right on Laurel Bowie Road (4.61 miles)
Right on Lanham Severn Road (6.29 miles)
Right on Springfield Road (7.77 miles)
Cross Springfield onto Beaver Dam Road (can be bumpy, but very nice and rural) (9.33 miles)
Right on Research Road (12.73 miles)
Right on Powder Mill Road (12.98 miles)
Cross under BW Parkway
Right into Patuxent Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center (16.24 miles)
Finish at parking lot (17.74 miles)

Soil Conservation Road and Springfield Road are good options also.
Turn left on Research Road (instead of right) if you want to get your heart rate up; there’s a nice hill leading up to a gate. (Past the gate is Greenbelt.)

This is a very easy area to add whatever distance you want. Just going out to Powder Mill Road and back from the Visitors Center adds 3 miles.

I'm assuming we'll do what we did last fall and go at whatever pace we want. Again, I don't want to hold anyone back, but speed is just not important to me. Kali, you've got to come along and bring up the rear with me, ok?

(It actually looks like Saturday might be the better day since the overnight low is going to be 39 and the high 52, compared to 31/42 on Sunday. Doesn't matter to me, except my dog has an acupuncture appointment at 9:30 on Saturday so I probably couldn't be there till 11 at the earliest.)

Did we pick a time? How about 10:30 to meet, and be ready to ride shortly after that?

Looking forward to it!

P.S. Nicole, the new bike won't be here till April.