Minuteman Road Club

65 and sunny beats 35 and raining every time.

In

In from P&R

Hopefully in from Stow Plaza

Not a lot of 'INs'
People are afraid to ride with Pare again after Saturday?
This is supposed to be a kinder gentler ride since many of us are heading to Battenkill this weekend.
Of course, everything's relative.

I am hoping to be there as well. Just not definite yet. I would meet at Stow Plaza.

Going by the book. I'm in full on taper mode.

And to be fair Saturday was billed as a smackdown ride, this is a "standard" WNR. Somewhere Russ had posted the ride "rules" for the WNR, its probably worth digging those out since its the start of the season and there may be new members interested.

Here it is, scroll down to Wednesday Night Ride.

Also note that the Tuesday Morning Ride is now retired in favor of the Monsters Bullet Train.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5440

Other good info on our group ride etiquette:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4377

pace21 wrote:Here it is, scroll down to Wednesday Night Ride.

Also note that the Tuesday Morning Ride is now retired in favor of the Monsters Bullet Train.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5440

May 5th I believe.

in

Is it still lurking if I post that I'm lurking?

In. And don't worry, I won't slow down the Battenkill team since I know the route, and I'm happy to meander my way home on my own if I get dropped on the first hill.

I'm lurking but out. Thx for referring to the "Group rides and start locations" thread. I'll give it some update attention when things slow down a bit...

Soccer practice rescheduled to tonight. Out.

Planning on in from p&r. Kev, it's a crunch for me from the train, even if it is on time. Will do what I can to make 5:30, but may not be able to roll out at 5:30

mfwestbe wrote:Planning on in from p&r. Kev, it's a crunch for me from the train, even if it is on time. Will do what I can to make 5:30, but may not be able to roll out at 5:30

I have never started from the PnR, but I suspect to meet the Stow plaza crew on the road you have to leave the PnR before 5:30.

Yes you need to leave 30 minutes early from the PnR to meet the Stow crew at the intersection of Boxboro Rd / West Acton Rd (aka "5 corners" [which is really 4]). So that would mean leaving Berlin at 5pm.

pace21 wrote:Yes you need to leave 30 minutes early from the PnR to meet the Stow crew at the intersection of Boxboro Rd / West Acton Rd (aka "5 corners" [which is really 4]). So that would mean leaving Berlin at 5pm.

It takes ~ 40 minutes (13 miles) from the p&r to the rendezvous (It took me 42 minutes solo in less-than-ideal conditions last week). That gives the Stow plaza group ~10 minutes to get to the rendezvous assuming that they leave on-time @ 5:30. It usually works-out, but I almost missed the train last week, so I will try to leave 5 minutes earlier from now on (4:55).

Kevin,

Correction, you initially missed the train last week, Smudger made us loop back to the Rendezvous just in case you were nearly there.
Of course we rolled out exactly at 5:30 and were going pretty hard from the start since it was raining knives and we didn't want to stay out any longer than necessary.

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#28 ... KRzBBCH8wQ

It's pretty cool to watch everyone start from different locations then it all comes together nearly perfectly.

Strava Flyby is cool.

And Smudger wise.

It will be very interesting to play the TOB races on Flyby.

"Raining knives" LOL

Fully "in", but will be meeting everyone at the intersection of Boxboro Rd / West Acton Rd four corner intersection in Stow. I have a request to the group to drop the Pinnacle Road A group add-on down and up in order to cut the time.

jraguin wrote:I have a request to the group to drop the Pinnacle Road A group add-on down and up in order to cut the time.

Is that the norm? I only recall doing that once before.