Riders included Jakester, Combs, Mossy and a new rider John K.
The plan was to complete 40 miles for this ride. We initialy started out for Stoney Creek for two loops around the park. At the top of the intial hill John K, the new rider, said "You didn't tell me we would hit a hill right away!" My reply was "Whoops, Sorry, Surprise, My bad..." I am not sure he accepted that answer. At the same time Jake's knee was hurting. so I told him to turn around and call it a day. Jake was only going to injure his knee further by attempting the ride.
After the two loops we said goodbye to John K. Combs and I headed out to the mountain bike trails in the back of Stoney, Once on the trails we rode to the back and slipped through the fence and onto Sheldon Rd. We climbed the hills on Sheldon until we got to Gunn Rd, where the real hills are. These hills can get 14% uphill climbs and above. Most of the Stoney hill max out at 8% grade and are much shorter.
Gunn Rd took us to Paint Creek Trail, we rode down the path to Paint Creek and rod out to Lake Orion. At the end of the trail we took a short break and head back to Rochester to have a final rest stop at Rochester Mills Brewery. At the brewery we snacked on Chicken Nachos and dehydrated with a wonderful Maibock. The Maiback was like heaven after 35 miles. After the "Mills" we rode an easy 4 miles back to our cars.
Sorry guys no photos of this week's ride so I will leave you with this
Next week we will doing our last training ride for Zoo-de-Mack... A glorious 52 miles.
Ride on....
Mossy
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