Patuxent River ride 2009 - June 13

[divingbiker]

Oh I'm tempted, I'm very very tempted. Also by this one for Sunday - http://www.tourdemparks.org/joomla/index.php
Is it wrong that I like the organized rides so much. I love riding with my family, but the two nieces who ride and live here are always so busy with other things and ride usually when I'm at work. I love riding in Pittsburgh with my brother in law, or Philly with my sister and other brother in law. I like the safety in numbers thing. So around here, organized rides are a better way to get that. Guess I'm still a road chicken. But also still chicken about going alone to local bike club rides and the like. OY, my hermit ways and my need for riding company, they conflict.

Possegal, are you a really fast rider? Because if you're not, you could ride with me from Riley's Lock up to Poolesville tomorrow, 40 something miles. I probably average about 13 mph.

I'll probably be ready to ride around 9 or so.

[Possegal]

I am not a fast rider, I average about 12 mph, which seems to be consistent no matter what the terrain. I think my lack of being fast is what keeps me afraid to go to some club ride where I don't know anyone, and why I ride so much better with my family, who have to love me no matter how slow I am.

I would like to do that actually! I would be up for 9AM. I'll have to double check where Riley's Lock is. I'm in Germantown so I'm OK with where Poolesville is.

[divingbiker]

I am not a fast rider, I average about 12 mph, which seems to be consistent no matter what the terrain. I think my lack of being fast is what keeps me afraid to go to some club ride where I don't know anyone, and why I ride so much better with my family, who have to love me no matter how slow I am.

I would like to do that actually! I would be up for 9AM. I'll have to double check where Riley's Lock is. I'm in Germantown so I'm OK with where Poolesville is.

Cool! I have no problem going at your pace. When I get home, I'll try to find the cue sheet URL and PM it to you. We can meet in the parking lot at Riley's Lock closest to the C&O (all the way down to the end); that's where the porta-potties are.

I'll PM you info on my car etc this evening, and see you at 9 tomorrow!

(I'm going strawberry picking afterwards at the farm that's just a couple of miles from Riley's Lock, if you want to join me for that, too.)

[Possegal]

excellent! I'm all for pushing myself for a faster pace. I seem to hold to the same pace so consistently that I think it is some preprogrammed thing No matter how hilly, still 12 mph. No matter how flat, 12 mph. I have only recently started paying attention to this, of course.

And yum, strawberries! I could totally pick some strawberries.