RR: Spinning at Blue Marsh

Ride-A-Lot said:

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Dino, Roger, and I met up with the Delaware Trailspinners at Blue Marsh
Lake today. A great epic ride with quite a few hill climbs. It was a
beautiful day as we all got ready to head out. It was one of those
perfect spring days with temps just right for riding.

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There was a nice large group today. It's been a while since Agave
ridden with a group. We started from a different parking area than I am
familiar with. It was actually much better than starting at the visitor
lot as I think there was more singletrack this way.

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It has been very dry around here and arterial certainly showed it.
After the dust devil in the parking area, the dust kicking up from the
group was choking and so I quickly made my way to the front on one of
the nasty walking climbs (the pic doesn't show how steep it is).

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I am not so sure getting to the front was a good thing as I now found
myself riding with two hammerhead racers (Andrea and Dan?). It was
tough hanging on their tails and for the most part I hang on until the
next rest stop.

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We start out again on our way to the boat launch area and a lunch stop.
Here comes the train!

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Lunch time at the lake.

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From there on it was hammer time. Again I was out front with the
racers who eventually were about three minutes ahead of me as I became
three minutes ahead of the rest of the pack. So I soloed for a while on
some sweet singletrack until I met up the the race crew at a trail fork
for the ride back to the lot.

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Back at the trailhead, most of the group decided that 23 miles was not
enough and needed to do the nasty ski area climb for another biz miles
of extra credit. The Jersey contingent decided a refueling at the local
greasy spoon was more in order, so we feasted on prime rib sandwiches,
beer, and soda while watching the hot waitress flash the tattoo on her hip.

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Nice RR and some great shots. Even though I carry a camera on most my
rides I'm really bad at stopping and actualy using it.

Laters,

Marz

Ride-A-Lot said:

It's been a while since Agave ridden with a group.

Were you drinking tequila when you wrote that?

JD

JD said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

It's been a while since Agave ridden with a group.

Were you drinking tequila when you wrote that?

JD

LOL! Wow, I don't even know what it was really supposed to say. I think
maybe it was "I have", but "I" is sure a long way from "A" on my keyboard.

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