Friday August 5th

Today we had five riders,Yoli,Eloise,Carl,JohnD,plus me leave from Southampton to Conte's via Retreat Rd.Very nice day,easy pace,and when I called breakaway ,Yoli and Eloise would pick up speed.JohnnyD was content to just get miles in and paced himself behind me,he's doing alot of riding,some at night with a C+ group,I think he's become the premeire rider amongst us.Good for you John,keep it up!Carl was steady again as sweep.Now the flies at Conte's have been giving me some bad bites so I purchased a coffee and apple cider donut and stood at the north end of the picnic table.Don't know if the flies are trained or if I tricked them,but I got no bites.We returned in three hours and traveled 29.52 miles.At the end Yoli stated that she greatly enjoys the rides and feels a sense of camradarie.I think she spoke for all of us.