Just Ron Altemus and Steve Palincsar and I comprised the CC group today. (The B/A's had a much larger contingent.) It was 18 degrees warmer than yesterday at ride start (about 47) and climbed from there into the low 50s - extremely pleasant riding conditions. So much so that our small group took 2 impromptu detours - "all" of Marbury Run Road off of Chicamuxen: the unfamiliar section at Gray's Grocery, then across Bicknell to the familiar section. At Blair Rd & the IH Trail, we went left around Jennifer, up Mattingly then rejoined the route.
After our Marbury Run jaunt, we came across Ken Meredith fixing a flat and waited to make sure his canisters worked - they did but as he got back on his bike, his gears did not work. We all stopped again to help him re-install his derailleur cable to its proper place.
Then, less than a mile from the shopping center, your ride leader's front tire went flat. I started walking while Ron and Steve rode back and Ron came and met me almost back to the corner of Livingston and 210 (a duathlon today).
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