No one signed up for our last Friday group ride, which was good and bad. When it's just me and Jack, I have to go fast...
Left the house with a darkish sky and occasional wind gusts. Not big ones, but cool ones, at 61 degrees. I saw no rain forecasted, but it was raining just north of here. Yup, as soon as I had driven a couple of miles, it started spitting, then stopped. Then, as soon as we left the lot on the bikes, it started misting, light rain again. It wasn't bad, but I didn't want to do the big steep climb, as I had already been to boot camp and my legs/back are toast, so we skipped that, took a nice alternate, and then skipped the last part of the ride, to go back straight on a main road. We stopped and had a cup of coffee at the Bedford Council on Aging. Jack plays pool there and also leads a Monday ride from there, for younger seniors, which means people more in their 50s, 60s. The place creeped me out. I was the youngest one there, but the coffee was good. I then rode back to my car, about half a mile. So, 24 miles, at a good pace, considering the suffering I did at the gym at 5:30 AM!
Tomorrow we are doing a ride called the Tour of Mt Pigsah. No, not the one n NC.... the one in Northorough, MA. It's jointly led by the Sudbury Valley Trustees, which is an environmental organization, and AMC. We will be riding west of here a bit, stopping to look at some of their conservation sites and efforts. It's co-led by a friend, who is the director of development there and also an AMC leader. It's only 21 miles, but it's hilly, and will be an enjoyable change of pace for a ride.