Weekend's Ride: July 5th & 6th

Saturday's Ride - All Good!

Our first official training ride of the season went off without a hitch on Saturday.  The brave riders met at our traditional location at O'Neill's in Nob Hill to do the inner City Loop CW ride (route here).  There were 11 of us today - Olga, Good Gary, Evil Gary, John, Stacy, Andrew, Peggy, Dave, Greg V., Captain Snookums, and new rider Marc!  

We headed out in beautiful morning, perfect weather for a bike ride.  We cruised down by the airport staying pretty close together.  We started to separate into A and B teams at the top of the hill by the airport, but we regrouped at the entrance to the bottom of the Bosque trail where it loops back north to Rio Bravo.  The Bosque trail was unusually quiet this morning, probably a result of too much 4th of July celebrations the night before.  No need to play Bosque Frogger like we usually do!

The sole picture from Saturday's ride

At the top of the Bosque trail we divided into A and B again and made the last 14 miles of the ride in a pretty quick pace.  Everyone finished pretty close to each other - a rather uneventful ride.  We attempted to hit somewhere in Nob Hill for breakfast, but no one was open at 9:30 am close to our ride stop.  So six riders headed to Weck's at Lomas and San Mateo for a post ride breakfast.  No picture of that, but I imagine it looked something like this.

Sunday's Ride - All Not So Good!

There was a stealth Sunday ride organized last minute by Blythe and Ali.  They attempted the 20 mile out and back from Nob Hill up to the Balloon Fiesta Park via the Diversion Channel.  They headed out at 6 am and made it all the way to the Paseo underpass before the vengeful Goathead God began extracting tribute.  One flat front tire was quickly change and mostly inflated when the only pump failed.  They decided to turn around and sprint for home and made it to the top of Yale on the UNM campus before a second flat tire hit.  This one required a pickup by the on call SAG vehicle (thanks Andrew!).  Lesson for this ride - make sure you have back up tubes, a way to change them, and a functioning pump!  Also, slime in your tires is almost a necessity here in NM!