FLCC> notes on Sunday's Salmon Creek Ride

[John Dennis]

Hi All, 

 

It was a positively spectacular day for a ride on Sunday…air temps seemed
absolutely perfect as our glacially-beaten-up landscape wakes up from
another tempermental winter.  I heard there were “about 50 riders” out for
the previous Sunday and this past Sunday there were roughly 25, so this
startling attrition may be making Andrejs’ point about a dearth of
stewardship for new riders and riders for whom “brisk” may be OK, but for
whom “ultra-brisk” is unwelcome.  Jason VanSevern (sp?) and Andrejs stayed
back with a group that assisted someone with a flat on Warren Road on the
way out.  David Sahn, Jason, and I joined the ride at the Post Office, so we
never saw the repair group and my knowledge of who was on the ride is
fragmentary at best.   

 

Gary Hodges, Terri Kingsbury, and Stewart Wolsh pulled the group along into
a headwind going north, making it look, as usual, very easy.  The lead
group’s rest-stop at the  gas station in Genoa was not long enough for the
last group to catch up with us. Don Tenkate and Mark Sheehan tied for the
“best person to draft behind” award. Mark is training for his third
Paris-Brest-Paris ride later this year.  I spotted a new gadget on his
handlebars and suspect it’s one of those GPS units that emits those “curb
too close to front wheel” warnings that we’ve all heard about. Wayne
Gottleib kept busy during the winter and so is going to stick with the Bs on
Tuesday nights and not  “captain the C’s.”   Bill Lodico, Ruth Sherman, and
Dave Ruppert also turned out in good form. I, on the other hand, am in need
of some sort of radical electro-shock treatment to jolt my metabolism out of
its torpid, winter-induced, BMI-enhancing, raggedity-assed sorry state.  

 

The descent down the Salmon Creek valley was—I admit it--utterly
exhilerating, spoiled only by the cowboy logging along the left shoulder at
one point.  The shooting range in Ludlowville was quiet , so we felt a tad
naked and unprotected going through town.  Apparently you have to call ahead
on Sundays. Someone mentioned that the space beneath the stone overhang of
the Ludlowville Falls is large enough to put two houses in it. (Verified
non-sequitur!)  I wonder if getting one’s heart-rate up to 180 on the hill
going up Brickyard Road does kick one’s metabolism into spring/summer mode?
Here’s hoping!

 

Ride safe,   John

 


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