Likely my last.
The 12 folks who said they were coming had pretty much fallen into two groups, those wanting to ride no more than 14 miles, and those wanting to ride 25-30. Since the ride was an out and back on the Springwater Corridor I could accommodate that as long as I had another ride leader agree to lead on of the groups.
Since riding 10-30 miles at 10mph doesn't hold much appeal to more seasoned riders I always do a "preride" to give the more seasoned riders a chance to get a good workout in before taking a few miles of cool down with our more social paced friends.
Today Carol joined me on a ride out to Vista House in the Columbia Gorge and back from the Willamette River prior to the newbie ride. John commuted by bike from Vancouver so he got his workout in also.
Out of the 12 who said they were coming just how many showed up? Well technically 1, but he was hardly a newbie. Steve was able to ride 17-20 or better all the way out to Linneman Station and back. Hardly a newbie pace.
The others either didn't show up, or unRSVP's after the ride began.
Here we are starting out under mostly blue skies along the Eastbank Esplanade.
I'm thinking I will forgo leading newbie rides from here on out.
Oh, and by the way, we had a few rain showers on the preride, but the "newbie" ride was dry. Too bad they missed it.
.......road bike.......rollers.........mtb.....lifecycle.....total
Today........73..............0.............0..........0..........73
Jan.........474..............0............21..........7.........502
Feb.........530..............0.............0..........0.........530
March.......502..............0.............0..........0.........502
April.......524..............0.............0..........0.........524
May.........336..............0.............0..........0.........336
YTD........2376..............0............21..........7.........2404
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