May 26 ride :)

[solobiker]

I am keeping my fingers crossed...after about 3.5 days of rain the sun is supposed to come out tomorrow!! Hope to go for a ride then.

[Geonz]

Welp, I went on the evening ride which had a low turnout because of the rain... I introduced myself to a couple of people who looked like the "B" group and then went to get my bike out... and they headed out before I had my helmet on. I went over and asked the guy with the "signup" sheet if there was a map an there wasn't "Because I'm a slacker." And while his group *would* catch up to the other group, they would be going *very* fast once they sped up so I should just go out and turn right and ride 'til I caught the other group.

)Short version -- BAD directions, never found group, rode around, let the first returners know, but got in metric.


Long veriosn: welp, turn right was on 301... I knew in two miles that this wasn't right. I did two more on the off chance... and turned around. Took the first right *from* 301 going both directions, and neither option would have offered enough distance to catch anybody. Wnet to parking lot and wrote note and left on windshield suggesting that in the future he simply state that he was a slacker and that I'd need to talk to somebody else.

Went back to explore other possible routes and try to get a metric, looping back towards the parking lot when things dumped me on major roads, and then saw some returning cyclists and realized that anybody who was that mindless of others might, in fact, decide to slash my tyres. So I peeled in and snatched the note off the windshield... and more cyclists came in and expressed their gladness that I'd been able to connect and ride, so I explained that well, actually I hadn't. THey were full of explanations - there'd been an email that the B ride was canceled - and I must have said eight times that well, I could hold my own with B+, a.k.a. them, and that I wouldn't have minded being dropped or even being told to go home, but to be given the attitude taht I wasn't worthy of being pulled up to the slow group that the guy had said I *could* keep up with (who were still out there, and who these guys said they'd caught up to very quickly, so I think they were of the group the bad direction guy was in and had seen me head out) *or* told where the first turn or two were. I also told 'em that yes, I was annoyed, but I'd get over it... that this stuff happened and I'd already had a great ride that morning with a B+ crew... As I waved good by they were apologizing again and the one guy said, "Come out THursday! We really feel bad about this! This guy says he'll pull you!" so I got out of the car (with the biggest smile I could muster) and said, "Waht do you mean? I will pull YOU!" and he said, "and you thought you were getting us out of trouble!" ... but I think they got it and I really wish I were going to be there Thursday but I'll probably be at my sister's.

[NbyNW]

We were expecting rain but only got a light scattered shower here and there.

In keeping with trying to provide incentives for DH to ride his bike more, I proposed that he ride from home to Red Hook Brewery, about 22 miles, where I would meet him with car and doggy and my bike, hand off the car and doggy after a light lunch, and I would ride home.

DH got a flat a mile out from the house, and had to call me for help, since he had no spare tube, no tire levers, no pump. We had a great day once we got him rolling again. Nice comfy overcast skies, and the trail was not crowded at all!