Leader: Darin King
Riders: Blake Altman, Claire Chiamulera, Scott Walker
Metrics: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/1055803
Picture: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574852182530782.146969.147336598615678&type=1&l=ed9d5392fa
Well...it didn't rain, but we did have to endure a moderate amount of road spray. No problem for these riders! The actual riding part was fairly normal: everyone took good turns out front and communicated well.
Claire mentioned how she had never been on Mechanicsville Road without someone flatting. Self-fulfilling words. She suffered a flat...her first in over a year (I need to know her secret). We all chipped in to get her rolling. At mile 43, Scott incurred a pretty comprehensive shredding. A boot barely contained it. As we were debriefing at the end, Claire noticed she was flat again. She threw up her hands and accepted a ride home (she normally bikes to/from the Charles County rides).
While cleaning up my bike, I extracted about 6 or 7 possibly-puncture-producing shards of rock/glass. Glad that I switched to "winter" tires 2 days earlier!
It was a slightly depressing ride, but everyone seemed to be glad they toughed it out.
