Group Ride

Today is July 10 2025 and yesterday i did a group bike ride.

It's the same group bike ride i did a few weeks back.

This time i hung on longer than last time but only by about 10 minutes. The stop lights were working in my favor so i cant really say whether or not i'm any more fit that last time. Calf cramping did me in however i did hit a max heart rate if 189 so i'm sure the lungs were about to go if the cramping hadn't done me in first.

I think this is a fast group ride but i've been out of the game so long i don't really remember what fast is.

Either way it's been a blast to ride road bikes at a more than slow pace with other people. It's also been a fun learning curve. For the past 5 plus years i've probably done 85% of my pedaling on a Mountain or a CX bike so getting back into the groove of the road bike is exciting. 

My road bike needs some serious TLC. The shifting is very janky. i seemed to be one of two guys on the ride with non disc breaks, which i enjoyed. 

There were only 13 of us on the ride. i was the last to arrive. 

Lucky number 13.

After the ride i returned home to fine X and the little man blasting the Macarena song and crushing the dance. Maybe i should have skipped the group ride and stayed home?

*Editors note: the below Garmin cycling computer pic was taken shortly after being dropped from the group ride.