By: C. Kent, aka (Superman) It was a strange feeling as I woke up this morning. Much like the Frankenstein monster I felt like that my legs weren’t my own. The alarm was going off in my ear, I have one of those high pitched sonic alarms like you might head on a sports watch, and it might best be described as what I think the moment of awareness was for Frankenstein when the lightning shocked him to life. I slowly reached for the alarm and shut it off only to find myself just staring at the ceiling in the dark. To be honest I was listening for the rain I halfway expected to come in the night and save me from having to get up. Not hearing any rain I slowly got out of bed and headed stiff legged down the hall towards the kitchen to take a look outside. It wasn’t raining in fact it wasn’t even wet so I had to go to plan B. If I had electrodes I would have checked to see if I had a full charge after 8 hours of sleep. I fueled up with breakfast and drank some extra water with my Vitamin I and D before taking a shower and getting dressed. By 8:10 I was on my porch and ready to head for the parking lot to join my friends on what I hoped would be an easy recovery ride. I am pretty sure by the time I got to Florida and Lyon I could speak English at least enough to be understood and decided I would order a cup of coffee when I met Digger. I got my coffee and met them outside with a body slowly coming to life. We all stood there till Rocky and Quicksilver arrived and we were ready to take our small group out to Lyon and Latham to head south past Florida.

I didn’t notice Rooster closing in on us from behind as we moved to Acacia and on to Johnston. Highlander wanted to avoid the torn up part of Lyon on the other side of Stetson so I turned everyone left on Johnston and headed for Palm. Once past Palm I turned us on Gilbert and headed south. By now I knew we had Rooster and were going to make our way to Thornton before cutting over to State. Highlander was impressed with how much smoother this route was and told me so just before we turned south on State street and headed for Chambers. I grunted something back at him in Frankenstein and headed us through the light and towards Domenigoni where we picked up Doug, (Prosecutor), adding one more to our small group.

As we turned onto Domenigoni I went into Cruise control and took us towards Searl. Before I got there Rooster pulled in front and gave me a break. Quicksilver rotated to the front as did Rocky and then I had another turn just as Prosecutor pulled by and headed off in the distance for Warren. I resisted the temptation to give chase and kept the group at 20-21 Mph as we got close to the dry wash with Rocky taking us over the top and towards Winchester. We all went through another rotation before Rocky led the way to the bottom of the saddle. Then some force, like the violin in the Frankenstein movie, pulled me up into a sprint like I was fleeing from the villagers waving their torches only to be running from Quicksilver and Rooster. We regrouped at the top and got ready to drop off of the backside towards Lindenburger.

Highlander led us off of the saddle and down to the light at Lindenburger. It managed to turn green just as we got there and we all pulled in behind him at the next light as we got to Laguna Vista. Traffic was a bit heavy so it took some extra effort to make the turn and head for Rockport and turn back towards Briggs and the Turkey ranch.

Prosecutor was riding a lot stronger than the rest of us but he didn’t just take off and leave us. He waited till Quicksilver took the lead heading south on Briggs towards Holland. Highlander was drafting her till Prosecutor pulled out front and quicksilver tagged up on his back wheel. As soon as the grade started when we past Holland Rooster pulled up on us and I got behind the three of them followed by Rocky and Digger. Prosecutor started to pull away and I pulled up next to Quicksilver as she tried to follow him. Quicksilver got the spin going and made it to Garbani right behind me and Rooster. We met up with Prosecutor just past Menifee for a regroup and made arrangements to stop briefly at Jack in the Box before continuing on.

Highlander took us back out onto Newport/Domenigoni and we headed back towards Menifee. Once we got to Menifee we turned north and I headed us towards Simpson. Quicksilver, Rooster and Highlander lined up behind me and I started to spin up as we headed for the rise to the light in Simpson. Quicksilver and Rooster stuck to me like a trailer as we turned east on Simpson and coasted down to Lindenburger to cross at the light and then regroup before heading towards Leon with Quicksilver taking the lead. Once again Prosecutor simply pulled away from us but we took turns and got through the trees as one group. I had just taken the lead as we came up on the last stand of trees and Quicksilver tried to catch me napping and out sprint me to Winchester. I saw he way too early and managed to get to the light first. Quicksilver decided to set the pace north to Stowe and a short nature break at Winchester Farms. We decided not to take a coffee break and headed east on Stowe to get home before the rain.

We were all working pretty well heading towards California and made the turn north. The wind had started to pick up and my body almost went into shock reliving the punishment I had suffered Saturday. As we turned east on Stetson I got up to follow Prosecutor and Rooster when I looked back to see Rocky falling back to stay with Quicksilver. The wind is never kind to Quicksilver and we had just caught Digger so I dropped back to assist Rocky and Rooster joined me. We made our way to Sanderson after watching Highlander disappear down the road with Prosecutor. We finally made it to Sanderson and turned north again.

Rocky left us at Johnston and we got a tail wind heading back past Wentworth with Quicksilver in the lead. Once again I pulled up next to her and we started a spin contest to see who would get to the Lowes parking lot first. I wouldn’t want to be in a spin class with Quicksilver. None the less we made it to Lowes with Rooster and then back to Acacia with Quicksilver pulling us all the way back to Gilmore and then the Burger King parking lot. As we sat there talking we felt a few drops of rain so Rooster and I headed for home and parted company at Palm. I got home just as the rain started but before I had a chance to get wet. I guess you could say it was just in the nick of time because it really started to rain by the time I had lunch.