Dudley Ramble - October 9. 2024

 RIDE REPORT

Wednesday, 9 October 2024, Dudley Ramble

Ride Leader:  Clyde Kessel

31 miles, 10:00 am start from Wayland, MA

Riders (16):  Clyde, Barry Kaditz, David Goldberg, Ed Hill, Everett Briggs, Frank Aronson, Frank Calabrese, Gary Williams, Gene Ho, John Trotter, Marc Baskin, Phyllis Evan, Renee Rees, Susan Broome, Tom Allen, and Wing Chow.

Present at lunch:  Helen Greitzer.

T’was a beautiful fall day, warm enough for shorts.  Our group of sixteen naturally split into two groups.  As far as the leader could tell, the second group stayed together pretty well, while the front group tended to fragment since it was the reservoir of arrows.  As a whole, the ride was pretty uneventful and we never got spread out much.  The leader only missed one turn, which is below average for this particular leader.

This lovely route was designed, years ago, by Brett Serkez.  Brett has since moved to Florida and we only see him occasionally when he comes back for a visit.  Hurricane Milton was scheduled to cross Florida Wednesday night, so I checked in with Brett.  He said the predicted path was south of his location and he was just going to hunker down and ride it out.  Update Thursday morning:  Brett did fine with very little damage.

Thanks to all the arrows and, especially, to Tom for sweeping.

Report by Clyde Kessel.