Westford Ho - July 27, 2022

 RIDE REPORT

Wednesday, 27 July 2022, Westford Ho

Ride Leader:  Clyde Kessel

37 miles, 10:00 am start from Bedford, MA

Riders (17) Clyde, Adam Walpert, Alan Cantor, Annemarie Altman, Barry Kaditz, Barry Nelson, Curt Dudley-Marling, Ed Hill, Gary Williams, Ken Weber, Linda Nelson, Marc Baskin, Ray Komow, Robin Frain, Rochelle Holman, Veronica Vedensky, and Wing Chow.

Present at lunch: Chris Dudley-Marling.

A beautiful day for a bike ride with dew point below 60.  It’s too bad that weather forecasters tell you what the temperature will be when it is really the dew point which determines whether you will be comfortable or not.  We had perfect attendance today with no no-shows.  And everyone was on time, even Wing, and Alan who said he would be late.  We even had three doctors from Children’s Hospital in the group.

The ride proceeded perfectly according to plan.  I didn’t even get any complaints about the surprise cut-through which Bob Wolf discovered 10 years ago and requires climbing up an embankment.  After the second rest stop, when the group was 3/4 of the way through the ride, it was starting to seem like nothing would go wrong (does that make a boring ride?).  But, the ride leader had forgotten to knock on wood and made a wrong turn, forcing almost everyone to go up an unnecessary hill (on brand new pavement, though) and then back down.

Seven of us stayed for lunch on the patio at Ken's NY Deli (eight, if you believe the rumor that Marc stayed for lunch at the waffle shop).  Barry jury-rigged the umbrella so it would stay open - until it suddenly didn’t.  It’s a good thing no one was hurt, because our ER doctor was busy stuffing himself with waffles elsewhere.  In the end, the ride leader left his water bottle behind on the lunch table but Chris saved the day by picking it up and, eventually, returning it.

Thank you to Ray for sweeping, and to all the arrows.

Ride report by Clyde Kessel.