Dimple Dell Loop - Backwards

Today's ride was much better attended as the "bankers" in the group requested a later start, 8am. However, there were a few that still wanted MORE beauty sleep and were pulling for 9am. REALLY??? The ride started with a blowout in the basement of Dave Moesser before he even got the bike outside. "Man, I need glasses when I'm pumping my tires, 150 looked like 110 psi"  Once the tire was fixed, we started out of the hood on quick pace, which quickly caught up with Wood on the first climb. "Remember, it's not how FAST you start, but how many STAGES YOU WIN"

The backward loop was one that many had never done and when asked to stop at the Church at the top of the BIG UGLY hill for our TATS from 1st timer Chris Nelson, there were NO riders when Wood the last to arrive got their. "Man, I got a little taste of what it might be like when I get to heaven and NO ONE IS HOME.... :-(" Wood finally found his team and blamed stopping to take a few pictures for the blog for his 10 minute delay. As you will see and hear, the TATS just keep getting better. However, Chris did want to go on record and state that he did not recognize Wood as having ANY authority to assign the TATS, but did it anyway. After his rude comment, a vote was being called for to impeach Wood, but Wood was quick on his bike to filibuster and the vote never made it to road.

Chris left the team early to get home to a soccer game and another senior rider, who was running out of gas or last night's dinner was calling, snuck off to ride home. WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT??

A BIG thanks goes out to Dave & Rod (A Team Members) for joining the B Team today and increasing our overall speed by 0.5 mph. Also, the KING OF THE HILL goes out to Mr. Bruner, but I think he had Little Man pull him most of the way and BEST RECOVERY goes out to Little MAN...  WHOA!

... and I'll see YOU at the TOP

YIPPY SKIPPY


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