10/25/2010
By: C. Kent, aka (Superman)


The overcast decided to stay with us today and last night it must have rained. Originally I had heard it was going to clear out over the weekend but it seems as if the weather had different ideas. Still it was drying out and I was willing to attempt a ride if at all possible. I left the house with two layers on and tights over my cycling shorts.

I got to Burger King pretty early but Wolf was already there and Rocket wasn’t far behind. Dura-max was running a bit behind and arrived just before Cossack and Puma. It was cold, it was overcast and the wind was picking up so we could see it was going to be a small group of the faithful as we started out onto Gilmore and headed to Acacia. Soon we were in the housing tract and headed for Johnson.


It was good to have Cossack back with us after so many weeks off. While he may have been under the weather a bit and he said he felt a bit out of shape he seemed to be riding comfortably. I didn’t know if we would break into two groups or not because I had no idea what kind of wind we might run into out on Donmenigoni. All I could tell was at that moment we were all together and the temperature wasn’t as cold as I expected.

We finally got over to Sanderson and headed for Domenigoni with just a bit more traffic than I was used to when we started earlier in the day. But it didn’t bother us and we made the turn west and headed for Winchester slowly picking up speed as the wind hit us pretty much on the side. The problem with the winds on Domenigoni is they never seem to stay on your side they almost always turn to hit you in the face and after my attempt at a pull I was pretty tired. By Warren Road I fell back and watched as Puma, Rocket and Cossack started to pull away. I got back on rockets wheel before Winchester but he was either running out of time or had burned too much fuel by the time we got to Leon with all of his pulling so he left us and headed for the barn. I watched Puma and Cossack head for the saddle and fell back to ride with Wolf and Dura-max.

It didn’t take us long to get over the saddle and then west to Bradley and it didn’t take us long to work our way over to McCall from Newport. Once we were headed back east again the wind didn’t seem like it was as much of a problem. Well at least it didn’t bother us much as we climbed McCall and got ready to head down the back side towards Winchester. We were moving along easily as we got to Simpson and rode passed Briggs Street when Puma flatted. Personally I like being to take a break as he changed his tube but soon we were back on our way and heading back towards Leon again.

With a smaller group it was decided it would be a good day to give the little coffee shop at the air port a try to see if it would make a good place for the group to stop for coffee sometime. We regrouped at the end of the dump road and finally turned north on Winchester and east again on Stowe. The only time the wind didn’t bother us was heading north, every other direction simply drained us a bit as we moved along.

Only Cossack, Puma and I stopped at the coffee shop because both Wolf and Dura-max had other appointments to attend to. Three of us checked out the place and decided it was big enough for the group because on a nice day there is a lot of seating outside. The coffee was good, the service was friendly and they forced us to sample some peach cobbler that was absolutely excellent. I know the wind was supposed to pick up this afternoon so I am glad it didn’t get any worse while we were out this morning. It was still a good ride and we didn’t get wet.