A modified ride

The plan today was to have a few members of my social bike group join me on a ride of "The Wilsonville Century". As is normal for the social group, half found other things to do besides ride bike.

The one who did show up arrived about 20 minutes late. I was still there waiting as it was frosty and I figured if I was riding by myself I'd wait for the ice to melt before rolling down the twisty road to the Canby Ferry since I could just ride a bit harder and still finish 100 miles before dark.

He was an inexperienced rider and arrived without full fingered gloves, long pants, glasses, water bottle, warm headwear. When I asked he responded that he'd warm up when he rode.

It took about 500 yds for him to realize that when the temperature is 30 degrees that a few different clothing options were in order.

We returned to Wilsonville and waited for RiteAid to open.
After a brief shopping spree he was ready to go.


By the time this was all done, and beginning to wonder about his readyness to ride 100 miles, I thought it best to suggest a shorter ride. We also avoided the twisty, shaded, surely to be icy descent of Advance Road.

There was a bit of fog around so I had front and rear lights on as we made our way across the Boone Bridge and out towards Donald.

It soon cleared up and we made our way to Gervaise, Duck Inn Rd, then over to Hopemere. We continued over the Wheatland Ferry then northward to Lafayette then into Dundee and Newberg. We finished up by taking Wilsonville Rd along the Willamette River to Wilsonville.

We ended up with 67 miles, a record for my riding partner today, and just under a 12 mph average, a record for me! (riding average, actual would have been MUCH slower)

It was a nice day to ride, beautiful weather for November!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
...............Road Bike.....LifeCycle.....Total Miles Today
.................67...............0.................67
Jan total.......501.....+.........30.......=.......531
Feb total.......614.....+.........0........=.......614
March total.....860.....+.........0........=.......860
April total.....790.....+.........0........=.......790
May total.......901.....+.........0........=.......901
June total......543.....+.........0........=.......543
July total.....1322.....+.........0........=......1322
August total...1603.....+.........0........=......1603
Sept total.....1403.....+.........0........=......1403
October.........503.....+.........0........=.......503
November........220.....+.........0........=.......220
Year to date...9332.....+.........30.......=......9362 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++