Minuteman Road Club

UPDATED!!!!

Not much on the calendar this weekend so I'd like to get in a few longer rides. I'm open to any suggestions but I would prefer earlier in the day -- but not ridiculously early.

As a starting point, or if no one else has other ideas:

Saturday: I'll likely ride from my house, leaving around 7:30 or 8:00am, join up with the Saturday CRW A group for 25 miles of fun, then return for a total around 50 miles with some good intensity. You can join me from Franklin or meet up on the road (Westboro or Hopkinton are good starting spots)

Sunday: I can host another "Tour of the Franklinkill" and we can head south into RI. 60 miles, leaving at 8am from Franklin. We'll head east into Norton/Rehoboth, the roads are pretty nice and after the first 10 miles or so they are flatter than a pancake. This will be a "tempo" ride, meaning not drilling or lolligagging it. i.e. warm up easy, then steady, non-stop paceline riding for the middle 40 miles (2 hours) or so. Either ride would work for me although doing CRW on Saturday I might prefer a flatter ride on Sunday. Whatever. I could do this on Saturday too if there's any momentum that way.

We could also do a Purgatory/Douglas loop and I could meet you Northerners on the road...

If someone has other ideas I'm all ears....

Monday TBD.

Sunday route:'
[ridewithgps]http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1656101[/ridewithgps]

I'm up for Franklinkill (or other) on Sunday.

I'm a bit more time constrained on Saturday, so am planning to do a CX workout (if anyone wants to join me)

Chris, Sunday sounds good.

Will be in for at least one.

argus wrote:Will be in for at least one.

Gary: What's your plan for the partial dirt century from Harvard?

Posted the dirty century under a separate thread for Sunday.

Updated original post. Let me know if you want to join either day....

In for Sunday.

Chris, Sunday's ride sounds good, but do you think you're going to run into any traffic problems because of the PGA tournament in Norton?

No we'll steer clear of the 495/TPC area

Chris, although a 40 mile paceline on pancake flat roads gets my inner Jens all excited, I won't be able to make it tomorrow. I hope you post a similar ride soon...

In for Franklin Sunday at 8 am.

THAT was a fantastic workout/ride: nearly 90 minutes of (for me) tempo/threshold pace lining w/Chris P, PJ and Stefan after an ample 40 minute warmup. I can't believe I was able to hang in there until the last couple of rotations after not riding my bike since Blunt Park.

Can't wait to do it again!

Hmmm you teach people what to do then they go off an do it without you

Smudger wrote:Hmmm you teach people what to do then they go off an do it without you

Always grateful for your tutelage!