Tuesday Group Ride Summary

Nice night for a hard ride. About 62 degrees, steady stiff wind from the ESE. Met up at sr. high parking lot. Eric, Travis, Ron, Paul, a resident doc Paul invited and myself. Paul had to stay close to town with being on call so he and the other doc head out on their own. We headed South, down through Coalville, took a right at the bottom of the hill scrubbing any speed from the down hill to tackle the first hill into Otho. Nice scenic hill, still goes up of course, but if your going to go up, might as well have some nice scenery. Held a 15-17 mph up the first half of the hill, to have Eric attack at the bottom of the steepest part to take the KOM, Travis 2nd and myself trailing in 3rd. Did not go below 11.2 with heart rate topping out at 201 (for me). Then headed thru Otho, on to Dolliver into steady East wind. Down into Dolliver and then up the South Dolliver hill with Travis carving out a small gap and holding it for the duration of the hill with Eric 2nd and myself not far behind. Heading on down to Lehigh, thru town up the third hill, steady 11 mph avg. with Eric taking KOM honors, Travis not far behind then myself. After a brief recovery, pace picked up heading North with an average of about 25 mph thru to the sprint for the Iowa State troopers building with Eric taking honor and Travis nearly catching him and myself trailing in behind. Kept the speed up near 25mph for the remainder of the road back to town, dodged a recliner in the road at the curve near the gypsum mill, got to remember it is junk day on the south east side of town. The avg. speed of 20 mph for the ride to the railroad tracks at S. 32nd St. and S. 15th Ave. Nice ride..