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Crw ride thurs
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:14 pm
by Bruce
Plan to be there for the 20 mph group
Re: Crw ride thurs
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:20 pm
by rusto
Bruce, what is the start time?
Crw ride thurs
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:21 pm
by Bruce
If it's really hot as forecast I might go with the short loop fastest group.
Re: Crw ride thurs
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:45 am
by rusto
6pm start, here's where to be:
map.
Hope to see you there, Bruce!
Re: Crw ride thurs
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:48 pm
by Bruce
Yep 6pm
See ya there
Re: Crw ride thurs
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:51 pm
by rusto
Welp, I naively jumped into the 34 mile "20+mph" group. Hung in for a while as we averaged 24 mph over every kind of terrain except when this one guy got in front and kept jumping the pace to 26... after about 6-7 miles of that I they snuffed me out like a cheap cigar.
I took a couple of minutes to gather myself and as I was ready to find out what pace I could maintain on my own a lone cyclist came up and grabbed my wheel. After a few turns pulling, it seemed like we could work together to hold about 21 mph average.
We got to talking as we wound our way through Westford, Chelmsford and Carlisle.
Turns out, the last I saw this guy was 5 years ago as I was heading back into Acton along Liberty Square Road on my '83 Bianchi. He joined me as he rode in from Hill Street. He snickered a bit at my down tube shifters but gave me some encouragement when I told him I had just dusted the thing off a few weeks earlier after a years of not riding.
Somewhere along the way I dropped HIM, he was fine on the flats but seemed to have nothing on the hills.
By the time I got on Lowell Street (the route goes backwards on that section of the CBTT), I finally succumbed to the heat, fully cracked and plodded along until a small put-put group from the CRW ride turned onto my route. They were going at just the right speed for a tired and overheated old man.