By: C. Kent, aka (Superman) To tell the truth my legs were real tight after the ride Saturday and I had a ride planned to take it easy on those legs today. I knew many wouldn’t complain because Monday’s are supposed to be our easy day anyway, at least that was my plan. I got to the parking lot well before Digger and had half of my coffee finished before he arrived. We were there by ourselves before Highlander arrived followed by Surgeon, Tax Man and Jackal. They last one to arrive before we left was Centaur and so we hit the road right at 8am. We rode down Gilmore and then west on Acacia only to catch the Light at Kirby red for a short wait. Once we were on our way south we started out smoothly and headed for the Railroad tracks.

Somewhere along the way we picked up Sasquatch as we made our way west on Cypress and south again on Sanderson. Surgeon led us to Stetson and made the turn west. I came around and pulled us as we headed for the Airport. We stayed together as a pack all the way to Warren and I stayed in front all the way to California where we turned south towards Stowe.

Surgeon took over the pull and I fell into third as we headed for Stowe. Surgeon was moving us smoothly and quickly west and pulled more than halfway to Winchester. At the three quarter mark Sasquatch and Jackal came around and raced towards Winchester. No one gave chase and I simply pulled around Surgeon to take my turn at the front. It took a few more moments for us to reach Winchester Farms for a short regroup before headed south once more to the dump road. I took the lead and safely got us to the turn and headed west towards Leon.

Surgeon once again started to run towards the Wild West Bar and I slotted into second place keeping an eye on Sasquatch and Jackal, expecting them to make a break by the time we got to the rise. Sasquatch caught me looking back at him and tried to pull back in line as if they weren’t moving up on me so I took that opportunity to make a break for it. I got quite a jump on both of them and made it to the top of the rise first with Jackal on my back wheel. The only problem was my sprint broke the group up and I had to go back and get Tax Man and Digger. I pulled the two stragglers to Briggs Street and headed north only to watch the lead group fade into the distance. Fortunately they stopped to regroup on Mapes, well all except Surgeon and Centaur who had turned at the elementary school. We moved down Mapes to Menifee and regrouped with Surgeon and Centaur at the AM/PM before heading back towards McCall.

Surgeon once again was leading us as we headed towards the back side of Hospital Hill and as we turned at McCall Tax Man left us. At the stop light Surgeon picked up the pace and I stood up to take the lead and Centaur came after me. Sasquatch and Jackal were too far back to catch me and I was able to hold Centaur off till I crossed the crest of the hill and started down the other side. We regrouped at the Gas Station on Bradley before heading to the top of McCall and cut over to Cherry Hill to get back to Bradley.

We turned south on Bradley and once again Jackal made a run for it. Sasquatch couldn’t let that happen and chased him down and passed him before the Seventh day Adventist Church. We caught them at Newport and followed them to Jack in the Box for coffee. Surgeon left first while I still had coffee left and we followed him about 10 minutes later as Jackal and Centaur moved us east towards Menifee again. I fell back to work with Sasquatch on his spin at the saddle while Jackal and Centaur decided not to regroup at the top so we had to chase them to Winchester. In fact I ended up pulling from Leon all the way to Sanderson and back to Lowes with the group. We parted ways at Acacia and Gilmore and headed for home. My legs held up better than I thought they would and I was even up to taking the dog for a walk after I got home.