Spring Butterfly Ride - May 18, 2022

 RIDE REPORT

Wednesday, 18 May 2022, Spring Butterfly Ride

Ride Leader:  Clyde Kessel

32 miles, 10:00 am start from Carlisle, MA

Riders (18):  Clyde, Adam Walpert, Beth Rosenzweig, Cindy Chin, Curt Dudley-Marling, Dale Ferguson, Doug Chin, Ed Hill, Frank Aronson, Garry Sheetoo, Julie Dodd, Kim Wach, Patrick Ward, Rochelle Holman, Romaine Randall, Roy Westerberg, Stan Kay, and Tom Allen.

Present at lunch:  Helen Greitzer.   :)

What a lovely day for a bike ride; with eighteen riders total, it was a good-sized group.  As usual, the group stayed together very well at the beginning, until we got to the hills.  At that point we got rather spread out and stopped a few times for regrouping.  Early on, we came to a detour and stopped to use the handily placed porta-john, while the always energetic Beth rode ahead to scout out the detour.  She returned and gave it her blessing (the detour, not the john), so we continued on.  FWIW - this leader thinks that the "unexpected" is part of the fun of a ride and doesn’t feel (very) guilty about not scouting the route a day or two in advance.

We did have a couple of arrows who left their posts too early and, in one case, the sweep went down the wrong road for a short bit before backtracking.  A big thanks to Beth for doing most of the arrows and to Tom for sweeping.

Turnout at lunch has been weak for WWs of late.  However, today it was relatively good; six people stayed to eat at the pizza resto, and Helen joined us.  Some of us discovered that the chicken romaine salad was pretty bad.

Report by Clyde Kessel.