COP - Woodstock - 60 miles of Delaware County

COP - Woodstock 60 mile by fdaugherty at Garmin Connect - Details

Today was the fist official ride in Central Ohio.  Columbus Outdoor Pursuits (COP) has a series rides throughout the season.  The early season these rides are prep for TOSRV.  A lot of people turned out.  The weather was great, sunny cool in the morning around 38 or so at the start and 60ish at the end.  The key was no wind in the morning, which was a great thing, especially after last weekend's 45 mph winds.

There were two bad things about the ride: 1) the route basically zig zagged around a small area of Delaware county, 2) one of the most annoying things was taking a road that was closed because of a triathlon or other race.  What really made this annoying was the road only added miles and never actually leaving a 5 mile radius on Africa Road.  If you are trying to host a ride why not ride out into the country.  Make a big loop instead of saw tooth along the edge of every town in a 10 mile circle.

Long shadows over my shoulder early in the morning.  Clearly, it is early in the season because that is not an acceptable pace line.

The over the head shot catches @lechatestnoir completely focused, with the game face on.  And Fry-Daddy appears to be in mid-season form, even though this is one of his first rides this season, thanks to shoulder injury sustained late last year.

The funny thing about this shoot is @sblake0626 just asked "where are we?"  So Julie made me take the picture.  It goes back to the running joke that @teamroll is directionally challenged.  Some of us use Garmin (clearly, see the link above).  And yet we get lost, even under a street sign on the corner.

Once we got back to Westerville Central HS I did a little recon work for the Tour de Cure (TdC) Family Fun Ride.  We like to keep the kids safe by keeping them on the, very well kept, bike paths of Westerville.  I rode a new section, for me, of trails in Westerville between Sunbury Rd. and Hempstead Rd.and then follows Hempstead up to the bike path, just south of County Line Rd.  I'm not sure it is the best route for the kids, because there is a fairly long stretch on Hempstead north of Walnut, which is fairly well traveled for a neighborhood road.

Next Up: SPOT  Hope to see you there.

PS - (ok some pun intended)  @teamroll does not condone outdoor urination, especially when it is in the busy parking lot of a store with a bathroom.  No one on the team knew him.  Perhaps some customers purchasing kits are taking the piss out of the brand.  Ok, I could resist that one either.