4/21 Group
Bob B
Bob W.
Cons
Dave
Felix
Gary
George
Herb
Hugo
Martin
Mike
Randy P.
We headed north on Waukegan Road practicing a double pace line and veered west to Gurnee. We made a quick stop at Viking Park before heading back home. As we were heading back south on Waukegan, Bob Best got stuck at a light and fell a bit behind the group. He was unaware the group had turned east on Rt 176 to head over to the Skokie Valley Bikeway. We had paused to wait for him about 40 yards down Rt 176. As he headed straight through the intersection with his focus on making the light, he did not hear 5 us screaming his name. However, a woman in a car that was waiting at the light did. She turned south on Waukegan, caught up to Bob, and yelled out to him that his "friends" were waiting for him back at 176. Thus, he was able to turn around and join us. It was such an unusual event that the anecdote got retold numerous times. By about the 4th telling, the woman in the car had become topless.
The ride may have featured the fastest sprint yet for our group, in part due to the aid of a tailwind. As we were heading down Skokie Boulevard. I got up to about 33 mph, and Mike was outpacing me even after having been at the head of the group doing a long pull. Felix got up to around 37 mph, and Martin was still able to put ground between the two of them.
4/22 Ride
The Sunday ride was scheduled to be to Rooster's Restaurant in Bloomingdale, with a circuit of the Busse Woods bike path to view the elk. The group included
4/22 Group
Cons
Heidi
Martin
Felix
Herb
Dave
Randy P.
The ride was going along successfully until I missed a turn in Schaumburg. However, since the missed turn led us to a Dunkin Donut in Roselle, and a couple of the members of the group wanted to be home by noon, this mid ride break a few miles short of our planned destination ended up working out fine. It allowed the group to get back to Evanston by noon, and we had already seen the elk in Busse Woods.
The routes west and east were appreciably different. The route west had been painstakingly mapped out to minimize road traffic. However, in order to get home by noon, we took a "traffic be damned" route east via Golf, Busse, and Central.
After the ride, Heidi emailed the following:
I want to thank you for working out a route and taking us somewhere different! The roads were in really good shape, also good. I think, too, that since some people had time constraints it probably was a benefit that we missed the Rooster – it would have been better food but Dunkin Donuts was quicker.
After you left Cons was behind me and said it looked like my rear brake was rubbing against my wheel – at the next light I checked and sure enough, the brake had been closed against the wheel on one side for who knows how long!!! So I got a little bit more of a workout….(bonus pain).
P.S. to Cool Randy. Missed you on the rides. Hope you heal quickly.
Great Rides overall!
ReplyDeleteI think we ned to work on paceline etiquette. Rule #1.. Snot rockets at the back of the paceline
The more I think about the topless woman in the car the more I think it might have been a guy. I was really tired and had sweat in my eyes and don't hear too well (obviously). In fact, upon further reflection, I now believe it was a golden retriever, barking at me from a minivan.
DeleteWas it a female golden retriever?
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