A night ride

For most folks after work rides have morphed into night rides given the rapidly shortening daylight. We were no exception. 4 of us started off from Wilsonville tonight at 6PM. I had mapped a route that I had hoped would be either well lit or low traffic, and hopefully both.

Here's what I had mapped

It turned out to be even better than I had hoped. Wide shoulders and/or marked bike lanes on the vast majority of the route and where we had some traffic there was good lighting. Even the traffic on the mile of Hwy 99 we rode was not bad and we did have a good shoulder and excellent sight lines.

It was a frisky group tonight and we rode a 17.4 mph average. Fall was definitely in the air this evening. With clearing skies the temperature was dropping. We stayed warm riding but afterward it didn't take long to chill down.

Post ride consensus was that this was good route worth riding again!



With my commute to the ride I ended up with 26 miles


............BIKE............LIFECYCLE.....ROLLERS....TOTAL
Today........26...............0...............0..........26
Jan........618...............0................0..........618
Feb........692...............0................0..........692
March......940...............0................5..........940
April......934...............0................0..........934
May........905...............0................0..........905
June......1152...............0................0.........1152
July......1020...............0................0.........1020
Aug.......1000...............0................0.........1000
Sept......1002...............0................0.........1002
Oct........905...............0................0..........905
Nov........148...............0................0..........148
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TOTAL.....9333...............0..............5.........9338