July 7th Rides

[mudmucker]

[QUOTE=tygab;221165]Hubby and I did a variant of our ride from last week, to Amherst NH. We ended up logging 51 miles. Rode up the road we have nicknamed the "grind" as it is a 2.8 mile uphill (not steep, just long), and there are also no trees for shade, and strong head/crosswinds. We rode by lots of farms and Silver Lake, Massapoag Pond, etc and I wanted to jump into the water so badly along both. It was warm out today! We closed out our ride with Lost Lake Road, which is this crazy, roller coaster winding road where the grades are over 10% (I think we logged that one of them is 14%). Arms feel a little sore. We'll see what we feel like doing tomorrow.

Is this the same Lost Lake Road in Groton? I remember I wanted to do a smoother metric last year so I drove over to ride and chose a route starting in Lancaster, went through Shirley, Townsend, Groton, and Ayer. I was on rt 40 in Groton and decided to cross south over on a road called Lost Lake Rd to pop in and say a quick hi to friends on the other side. It was funny. You go down the road and you sort of get enveloped in this lost world of green and like you say, continually go over all these roller coaster hills - it sort of makes you laugh. Short stand in the pedals sprinty kind of hills but I do remember rolling my eyes saying "how many are there" and I do remember one that was over 10%.

[emily_in_nc]

Yay Emily! Hadn't heard whether you were (road) riding again!! Glad to hear you're back at it!

You were brave to ride yesterday - I wimped because of the heat!

CA

It actually wasn't too bad starting out - about 76 degrees but definitely humid. It stayed overcast for most of the ride, which made it very tolerable. The last 8 miles or so back from the farmer's market were sunnier, and mostly uphill, so that's when we started to suffer. When we got home it was 87 degrees (and still humid). Not nearly as bad as they're predicting for the coming week - ugh! Highs of 99, heat index of 105+. If I can't ride (mtb) tomorrow afternoon due to rain, I won't be riding for awhile - anything above 93 degrees with humidity is just too miserable!

Emily

[tygab]

Is this the same Lost Lake Road in Groton? I remember I wanted to do a smoother metric last year so I drove over to ride and chose a route starting in Lancaster, went through Shirley, Townsend, Groton, and Ayer. I was on rt 40 in Groton and decided to cross south over on a road called Lost Lake Rd to pop in and say a quick hi to friends on the other side. It was funny. You go down the road and you sort of get enveloped in this lost world of green and like you say, continually go over all these roller coaster hills - it sort of makes you laugh. Short stand in the pedals sprinty kind of hills but I do remember rolling my eyes saying "how many are there" and I do remember one that was over 10%.

Indeed, this is the one. It's very close to our house and I've never ridden it before, mainly due to the cars that are having fun driving the road too. But it wasn't too bad.