This past weekend the Daydream ride was on the schedule to help with support for Mike Ridgeway in Lancaster. Friday I rode to work (40 miles), worked 8 hours, rode to Lancaster (another 35 miles), due to heavy thunder storms I had to stop. Saturday I sagged all day for 30, 63 and 100 mile route and helped set up at 4AM.
Sunday heavy thunder storms in morning kept me from leaving Lancaster at 4am. By the time the lightening had ceased it was 6am, I was on the road by 6:30am. Stopped for Breakfast and headed out for home. About 15 minutes into the ride I looked behind me to see BLACK sky, which I was hoping would be following the river that I was going away from, I got as far as King Highway Elementary School just east of 340 and Rt 10, about 25 miles when the lightening started up, 1.5 hours later it was still raining but the lightening was over 10 miles away so I started out. Very nice ride until I got to the wooden bridge that connects Valley Forge Park to Betzwood (VF Trail), apparently a horse had gone over this bridge and broken 2 boards and left a lot of "stuff" on the pavement leading down to Betzwood. About 10 miles later as I was on the VF bike trail, I was going through the S curve where the 'Cross County' and Schukyll trails meet and down I went leaving quite a bit of skin. The road surface was freshly paved with what appears to be blacktop, VERY Slippery. Home by 2:30 (90 miles), in time to mow the lawn!!
Saturday, July 28, 2007
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