Saturday (1/12) 11am ride from Guiseppi's in Berlin

[JeremyC]

Peeps, a few of us are planning a long ride this Saturday at 11am from the usual FMR coffee shop in Berlin. Weather looks moderately good. The final route hasn't been determined but expect 50 miles or so around the reservoir. I plan on adding bonus miles to 75 if anyone is interested, but the main route will be shorter to allow higher participation.

Winter pace with regrouping on hills.

So far PJ, Mark B and Sweendawg are looking in, but feel free to officially post.

[Mkidd3]

Officially in

[PJ McQuade]

In for 50.

[JeremyC]

Possible route

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2056210

[BTurner]

In.

[sonomarco]

I'm in for 50 for sure...75 might me a bit of a stretch as I'd like to have something left in the legs for (balmy) Sunday

[rusto]

Jeremy: you thinking about riding to Giuseppi's fro0m home?

[jcmalle]

I am in for the 75 per the weather cooperating.

[JeremyC]

@Rusto - Yes I'm planning on leaving my house at 10:15. Let me know if your interested in meeting along the way.

For further clarification on the meeting place:

Guiseppe's Grille • 35 Solomon Pond Rd, Northborough, MA 01532

Weather is looking like 47 and cloudy, hopefully no rain, and no wind. Could be GOOD

[rusto]

Currently engaging in the diplomatic overtures necessary to make this happen...

[rusto]

In. Jere, meet you somewhere along 117? The gulf station.

[cbusick]

Have you finalized a route? I was hoping to run into you guys somewhere along Linden Street if you are doing the route posted above.

[JeremyC]

@Rusto Let's meet at 117 and Delaney at 10:20

@Chris Yes that's the route. Downloading to my Garmin as we speak. Ride backwards on Linden and we'll meet.

[rusto]

Confirmed

[pace21]

In for 50

[Smudger]

Late entry. In for 50. See you at 11.

[cbusick]

Chris + 1
See you on Linden.

[rusto]

Sonamarco, lost you there, didn't hear a peep!

[sonomarco]

It's all good, flatted 30 min in when that pickup truck almost took us out! Didn't want to hold up the group. Congrats on you mega miles today!

[rusto]

It's all good, flatted 30 min in when that pickup truck almost took us out! Didn't want to hold up the group. Congrats on you mega miles today!

Friendly note to all group ride participants: if you start to fall off the back and don't think you can rejoin OR have a mechanical and want to let the group ride on (you are sure you are good on your own), please let the others know so they don't have to spend time riding back to find out what happened to you. As much as everyone should be aware of who is in the group and what the group count is, in a larger ride, this can be difficult.

I've added this to the Group Ride Guidelines and Etiquette thread.

EDIT: I see this has already been covered in the No-drop ride section: "If someone WANTS to be dropped, they MUST let the last person ahead of them know they are dropping out or taking a different route."

[sonomarco]

Duly noted for future reference. Sorry if I messed you guys up in any way1

[rusto]

For those that missed this ride, here is what I looked like when I got home.

80miles.jpeg (133.66 KiB) Viewed 7146 times