RIDE REPORT
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, Thursday on Wednesday rides
Ride Leaders: Patrick Ward & Tom Allen
39 & 29 mile options, 10:00 am start from Ixtapa, Lexington, MA
Riders - 39 mi (11): Patrick, Barry Nelson, Butch Pemstein, Dave Balaban, Gene Ho, Kathy Horvath, Kaz Zelny, Roy Westerberg, and first-timers Amy Lawrence, Andy Brand, and Julie Dodd.
Riders - 29 mi (17): Tom, Adena Schutzberg, Andrea Clardy, Barbara Jacobs, Betty Hoffman, Bruce Lederer, Don Mannes, James Hsia, Janet Miller, Jim Whinfield, Judi Burten, Kathy Jonas, Richard Fortier, Richard Mandel, Selig Saltzman, Susan Sabin, and Tod Cochran.
Present at lunch: John Allen.
I was impressed to see that Butch, Selig, Tom (and perhaps others) rode to the ride start. There we welcomed Amy Lawrence and Julie Dodd on their first Wednesday Wheeler rides. We enjoyed the cool, but brilliant, spring weather on our three-mile cruise on the Minuteman Bikeway to Lexington center. Skirting the far edge of the green, we rolled west on quiet roads, except for a brief stretch on 2A, to reach Hanscom Field and the CRW Thursday night medium ride route. After a rest stop at the Old North Bridge, where the 29-mile group met up with us, we dodged some potholes on Monument Street and River Road on our way towards Great Brook State Park. Shortly after that, our route diverged a bit from the regular one, taking Bingham Road, a curving downhill run that was new to several riders. From there, we all rode at much the same pace back to the restaurant where John Allen joined a total of seventeen riders for an enjoyable lunch.
Many thanks to Barry Nelson for sweeping.
Report by Patrick Ward
According to photographic evidence there were fifteen of us on the ride. [Maybe two had strayed? PW] We set out shortly after Pat's long riders, following the same track. (We were delayed briefly by a rider who discovered the wrong shoes were on her feet.)
We mushed along at a reasonable clip to the official rest stop at Old North Bridge, where we found the long ride group milling about. They were persuaded to pose for a photo before they set out up Monument Street into Carlisle.
Meanwhile the short ride group posed for a photo snapped by an agreeable passerby. We then headed up Monument Street and back to Bedford, where we dismissed a couple of riders to take the more direct bike path route back to the start. The rest of us headed back toward Concord to return via Virginia Road and Lincoln's Mill Street to Lexington. We enjoyed a very agreeable, intimate lunch at Ixtapa (at least until the rowdy long riders appeared).
Thanks to the multitude of arrows and to Barbara Jacobs for serving as sweep.
Report by Tom Allen.
Many thanks to Barry Nelson for sweeping.
Report by Patrick Ward
According to photographic evidence there were fifteen of us on the ride. [Maybe two had strayed? PW] We set out shortly after Pat's long riders, following the same track. (We were delayed briefly by a rider who discovered the wrong shoes were on her feet.)
We mushed along at a reasonable clip to the official rest stop at Old North Bridge, where we found the long ride group milling about. They were persuaded to pose for a photo before they set out up Monument Street into Carlisle.
Meanwhile the short ride group posed for a photo snapped by an agreeable passerby. We then headed up Monument Street and back to Bedford, where we dismissed a couple of riders to take the more direct bike path route back to the start. The rest of us headed back toward Concord to return via Virginia Road and Lincoln's Mill Street to Lexington. We enjoyed a very agreeable, intimate lunch at Ixtapa (at least until the rowdy long riders appeared).
Thanks to the multitude of arrows and to Barbara Jacobs for serving as sweep.
Report by Tom Allen.
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