Had the day off of work at
the shop so I spent the day taking care of little things such as membership cards for the camp MTB Auxiliary getting laminated, clean off a bit more of the trails at camp, and sat around resting up for the group ride tonight.
Group ride started out like normal although there was only a small group showing.
JY,
Kerkove, Engstrom, J. Fry, and myself all showed up for the 6:00 departure from the Pheasant Ridge "depot". Started out heading west on 27th street (the TT course) towards the Dike-New Hartford blacktop running a pretty nice paceline with everyone taking good pulls and making some serious speeds. Turning south towards Dike, J. Fry took off with Kerkove on his wheel while JY, Engstrom and myself were left to chase them down. Jy and I came fairly close to catching up before we arrived in Dike, just not quite enough fuel in the tank. Slow cruise through Dike for everyone to catch their breath and Kerkove took off again with J. Fry on his wheel and JY, myself, and Engstrom each on our own in full chase mode all the way to the next turn towards Hudson. Kerkove and J. Fry sat up until JY and I caught up and then it was a paceline into Hudson followed by a much slower pace back to Waterloo for a cool down.
My total ride including warmup and cool down was a touch over 50 miles with the group ride loop being around 30 of that. Group ride time was a hair over an hour...it hurt...in a good way. I followed up the ride with some
Recover-Ease and now I am off to bed. I am planning on three more days of high effort riding to blow up my body by Friday since I will be in the car for two days this weekend for
T.I. V2. Overall my body is feeling great and I believe that I will be on form for the
Sugar Creek Thaw on May 13th. Can't wait.