The group at Pisgah Park, being surveilled by an FPV drone
Leader: Steve Palincsar
Members: Lori Michaelson, Chantal Briere, Sonja Newman, Ray Luckenbach, Ellen Goodwin, Charles Williams, Joan Oppel, Patricia Walthers, Dave Van Amayden
Guests: none
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/37944348 As planned, 49 miles, 1680' elevation gain. For those of us who skipped the out-and-back to the end of Liverpool Point Rd, 47.3 and 1661' (per my Garmin)
Weather: Partly cloudy, hot and humid. 83 at 9 am rising to 90 by mid-day, with 7-8 mph breezes and humidity at 45%.
AMS: 13.6 for the trailing group, probably around 15 for the fast group.
Mechanicals/Mishaps: none
Report: A hot and humid one for the first day of summer, but the route was shady and the breeze helped keep us cool. Nanjemoy is a great place to ride on a day like today, and the design of the route (thanks, Joan!) kept us in the shade, and on the shady side of the road, for almost the entire distance.
The groups separated into a fast group and a less fast group almost before we left Pisgah Park, and by the time we turned on Annapolis Woods the lead contingent was well out of sight. We found them waiting at our first rest stop at Friendship Farm Park, didn't see them at King James Church and sighted them again at Liverpool Point Rd, as they were returning from the out-and-back.

We stopped at the Nanjemoy store at around noon for lunch, some heading there directly and others going down to the end of Liverpool Point Rd (muddy with puddles, Joan said, and you had to view the river from a driveway since it was too hard to get down to the fishing spot) before the store. As Joan predicted, those of us who went straight to the store skipped the out-and-back to Liverpool Point. The stop at the store was terrific. We enjoyed canine company for lunch, visible at the far left in the photo.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a better route for a hot summer day than this one. We had everything you need for an excellent time: water at the Nanjemoy Community Center; food, water and sodas at the Nanjemoy store; shade everywhere; a light breeze to evaporate our (copious) perspiration; a great group to ride with; and a dog for company at lunch.