8/30/2010
By: C. Kent, aka (Superman)



I never know just what to expect on Mondays. I normally get a day or two of rest so I think I will be stronger on Monday but sometimes it seems harder to get out of bed than other days. Today I got up and it seemed like fall had slipped in over the weekend. It was rather cool and maybe even a bit misty. None the less I decided against leg warmers and arm warmers and headed out the door right at 7am. Somehow even though I was trying to take it easy I got to Burger king well before anyone else.

I waited for about ten minutes before T-3 and Duramax arrived but once they did several other pulled up as well. Rocket, Cossack, Updraft and Shock wave pulled in a few seconds apart and Hit man, Highlander and Tax man were not far behind. Warden was the last to arrive and we headed out right at 7:30am. Highlander was telling me he and Tax man might cut the ride short depending on how they felt as we got to the Back Side of McCall. I don’t know what he had for breakfast but I ended up chasing him most of the way to the Hemet Airport.


I had pictured the A group being Cossack, Rocket, Hit Man, Updraft, and Shock wave and the B group being T-3, Duramax, Tax man, Warden, Highlander and I. However just about every time I sat up to take a picture I found myself having to chase the whole group down the road. Even when I did manage to grab onto Rocket’s or Cossack’s rear wheel Highlander and Warden were always filling my rear view mirror. I also realized that Hit man would only stay back till two or three of the quicker guys started to take off so I expected the line to stretch out a lot more than it did when we were on California and Stetson.

Rocket took the lead when we got onto Stowe and pulled us all the way to Winchester. What was surprising to me was he kept it to a very steady 20-21 MPH all the way to the corner of Winchester and Stowe and when we pulled into the parking lot at the little store everyone was still together. We pulled down Winchester to Grand/9th and headed west still in full contact and in a pace line like team Hemet. By the time we turned onto Briggs road we may have spread out a bit but everyone was within 45 seconds of the front so you could say we were still together. We did stop to regroup at the Housing tract just before Heritage High School but that was more to allow people to start removing arm warmers and light jackets.

We took off for Mapes road before heading west towards Menifee road. The long pull up Briggs spread us out again but we were all pretty close by the time we got back to McCall. Here things started to break up. The A group pulled away and made it to the top well before those of us in the B group did. Once we started down the front side the A group pulled ahead even further. Highlander flatted so the group splintered into three parts. We ended up regrouping at Jack in the box and we only lost Duramax and T-3 because they didn’t have time to stop. The group left at different times so I ended up riding home with Cossack, Warden, Tax man and Highlander. We tried to take it easy and we did pretty much just that till we got back to Sanderson where Cossack headed for home.

Four of us ended up riding back to Burger King together and I will admit I was still feeling pretty good. I got in a bit more mileage than I thought I would with 42 miles but it was the kind of day you could easily have gone all day. I even stayed to talk with Warden and Highlander for a while before heading for home. It was another great day with a great group of people.