a wine ride, but not a whine ride

My social bike group held true to form. Today 15 had said they were coming, 7 showed up. We presume the predicted wet weather had scared them away......... but come on folks, if you say you are coming show up!

The plan today was to help one of our assistant ride organizers celebrate his birthday with a 42 mile ride interspersed with visiting area wineries and a sakery.

We had a slight headwind as we pedaled south and a couple of brief light rain showers. Really not bad at all for November in Oregon.
By our half way point we had far more blue sky than clouds. We were looking for sunscreen!


We enjoyed a nice tailwind after our first wine stop as we rode to our second. However while sampling the wines at stop 2 the wind shifted. For the remainder of the ride we had a quartering headwind. Not exactly a headwind both directions, but not the tailwind blowing us home we had hoped for.

It was a good ride, a good group of riders who could ride a decent pace, and better weather than expected.


With 31 miles of commuting to the ride I ended up with 73 miles today. I may make 500 miles this month yet!


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
...............Road Bike.....LifeCycle.....Total Miles Today
.................73...............0.................73
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........393.....+.........0........=.......393
Year to date...9505.....+.........30.......=......9535 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++