Well, the second Tuesday night ride is in the books. Wow, the wind was ridiculous, very stiff from the Northwest. Left from senior high parking lot, nice group of 5. The usual suspects of Travis, Eric and myself. Paul Dayton was along for the ride as was Ron Jacobson, nice to see Paul back and Ron out tonight too. Headed out again out on Badger blacktop, 15-16 mph into the wind, nice way to warm up, I guess. Turning East toward Vincent gave a break but not without a bar gripping side wind. Got a nice little pace line going, quickly ramped it up to 25-26 mph, pretty much held it all the way to Vincent blacktop were the party ended with a turn to the North and into the brutal headwind. Grinded along toward Vincent ending with a short sprint at Vincent with Travis (I think) taking it. Continued on and then heading West toward Badger where the wind was not so bad, still bad though. Able to keep it to about 17 mph. Approaching Badger, Travis provided an impressive ramp up to 25, held it for an impressive distance considering the wind, with Eric taking sprint honors to the Vincent sign. Continued on and finally got to head South on National Ave. where things quickly jumped to 27-31 mph. Motored along nicely with some lactic acid building in the legs, headed up and down the hill near Kennedy park with ERic making a nice strong jump in the big ring, really looking strong. Headed past the apple orchard, along river road (N. 7th St.) finishing with the grind up Loomis hill and Eric taking KOM honors with an 19.7 average speed for the ride to top of Loomis. Will give averages for this ride to this point, average speed goes down a bit once get in to town and cool down. Think Eric and Travis are certainly ready for the races this weekend in Iowa City. Keep checking back for results and pictures of the Iowa City races.
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