This is the second year we've done a ride on Labor Day. The weekend has been beautiful, but today is a lot warmer than Sunday or Saturday. We (myself, Jean (Newfsmith), Tasha (Tygab), Andrea (Jolt), Deb W. and my friend Janine) met at 9 AM at the airport (it's teeny!) in Stow and did a 28 mile loop through Boxborough, Bolton, Hudson, Sudbury, and back. We stopped at the Grist Mill near Longfellow's Wayside Inn and the Little Red Schoolhouse that is described in the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and had a snack and chatted.
Most of this ride is on country roads, in apple country. There was a short stretch with a lot of broken glass, but there was a pretty wide bike lane here, so we avoided any trouble.
I did an almost 50 mile ride yesterday with about 3100 feet of climbing, so my quads were a bit toasted by the end of today's ride. I didn't feel bad at all about letting everyone pass me on the one bigger climb today! A very pleasant ride for everyone. We are planning to ride again during the last half of October.
No pictures, Jean's camera ran out of batteries

Robyn