Hill Slugs Ad Hoc, Saturday, 5 December

6 December

We probably shouldn't.

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5 December

Mike and Theresa dragged me out of the house at 7:30 a.m. today to get some riding in before the rain started. We did lazy spirals through the rural part of Lawrenceville, the "inland route," as Tom would call it. Our spirals grew bigger until we wound up at Small World in Princeton. At 9 a.m. the joint was already full of people.

Theresa ordered chai. It smelled like one of those scented candles stores bring out around Christmas: cinnamon, ginger, and maybe orange with cloves. It tasted even stronger; she had to dump a few ounces of milk in to make it palatable.

We headed back through the farmland again. The rain started when we got to Lawrenceville at 10:30.

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4 December

Ick.

Tomorrow's ride is canceled. Let's see if Sunday looks better. If the roads are clear, we'll do tomorrow's ride on Sunday. Stay tuned.

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3 December

The forecast looks iffy for Saturday, so I'll post something definite on Friday night.

As it stands now the temperature won't change much between 9 and 10 a.m. but the chance of precipitation only goes up. So let's meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Hopewell YMCA parking lot on Main Street in Pennington. We'll dig out the old Friday night route that Bob Barish used to use when I first joined the Freewheelers. It never strays far from home, it's short, we can add miles easily, and we can stop someplace warm after the ride is over.

If the forecast changes for the better we'll actually go somewhere.

Extra-milers can meet in front of my house at 9 a.m. I'm 5.7 miles from the YMCA. Email me for directions (the address is in the book).