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Saturday Morning Ride

I had a 42-mile ride scheduled with Sven this morning and met him on the corner on Scholls-Ferry and Murray. The weather forecast was not promising, with a good chance of rain, but I decided to chance it and left the rain gear at home. Sure enough it started to come down early on; enough that I was damp throughout.

I had mapped out a new course and didn’t know that a considerable portion of Firdale Rd was actually gravel. We decided to take our chances instead of turning around and, amazingly, made it through without any flats (instead, my front tire went “psssssh” later on, as we were heading south on OR-219 from Hillsboro).

The pace was a little slower than I would have liked, my flat tire cost a few minutes, and Sven bonking at the end forced us to stop for some Snickers bar and Gatorade. But all-in-all a decent ride.

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