That Was Fun

About 20 of us showed up for a team ride in Red Wing, Minnesota. We rode around Lake Pepin taking the Wisconsin side south along the river to Nelson and then crossed over to Wabasha. A very enjoyable tail wind pushed us north on the Minnesota side back to Red Wing for some well deserved food and beer.

Some pre-ride organization Some post-ride recovery

The sandy roads took their toll on our tires and produced 7 flats. It was a damp day, kind of foggy, and even though the temps were near 60, it was on the cool side. Don't get me wrong, there was plenty of sweating going on. The hill out of Bay City, I'd guess a 5 % to 6% grade for 2 1/2 miles, got us warm pretty fast.
Lots of tactics were practiced, with numerous attacks, challenges up hills and rollers, but surprisingly the city limit signs went uncontested. The Bay City hill split the team up and burned some matches early. We regrouped at a stop in Maiden Rock. Not a whole lot of friskiness until we got to Wabasha, when the tail wind got some of the young bucks feeling a little feisty, and the games began again. Finally about halfway between Wabasha and Lake City a group of four of us got away and stayed away into Lake City, where we regrouped and very civilly and without any feisty incidents rode into Redwing. Total Blast Today! The old guys showed the young bucks a thing or two. 73/20.7