Wed. 8/26/09

Met up with the Erik's bike ride group tonight. It was a light turnout, but we eventually ended up with 8 riders. Even though Big Jim bailed at PI, I guess 6+ hours of gravel road riding in one day was enough for him. Can you say, Wuss!

Anyway, the group (Big Jim, Jim G., Jim H., Big Jeff, Jeff G., Steve G., Big Tom, and myself) headed north on thre trail to get out of traffic.

We turned off the trail on cty 3 and headed for PI.

At PI, we turned west (as Big Jim headed for home or more gravel roads...) and followed the river road to cty 11. The group rolled along nicely, and even hung together up the big climb on cty 11.

As we made our way to Roscoe, we got a bit split up, but we came back together before town.

And as we turned east for PI again, we had a slight headwind. But the group did an excellent job of working together to keep the pace high, but not too high that we were splitting up all the time.

Big Tom wanted the PI sign bad, so I graciously let him out of his cage and he was off. Big Jeff tried to catch him, but Tom was too far out.

We headed south out of PI on cty 3 again, then as we neared Douglas, the pace whipped up for the sign, Jim H., Steve G., and I did our Domestique duties for the day and Big Jeff turned out to be the eventual winner of the the coveted Douglas town sign.

Then it was back on the trail for the shop. Big Jeff (and others) split for home as we neared town.

We got back at around 8:15pm, just as the daylight was getting thin.

Great ride, everyone.