We lead a club ride today; only 4 people came. it was cool and cloudy, a welcome change from the past few days. One woman came in a sleeveless jersey, with no jacket. Pretty irresponsible, since rain was forecasted. She didn't realize you can get hypothermia at 60 degrees. I lead up to the lunch point. Of course there was one man who had overstated his qualifications and poor Steve had to do circles to stay behind him. But, all of the people were very nice. I was glad to see that I can climb better than all of them. We stopped at Longfellow's Wayside Inn and ate lunch on the grounds, watching all the people go in for a wedding or shower. I rode sweep on the way back, where we ran into grooved pavement, which I hate and then it started lightly raining about 3.5 miles from the end. The slow guy made it up a big climb pretty well, but then slowed to a crawl right near the end. At the last turn I told him i was going ahead, since it was another climb, and I made it back up this hill at my fastest speed ever.
Most of this ride is on roads that i first started riding on and near my old house. I really miss riding more frequently on these roads. Just being on them made me happy.