A Nice Day For A Century

We are getting ready for the first ride of the day at 8am. Jim has his back to the camera and Dave is on the left and Greg is on the right. The others are behind Joe's van.

Since I didn't get a century in yesterday, I went out today to try again. Joe was doing a 150 mile ride today broken into 3-50 mile rides. There were 7 of us that showed up for the first ride at 8am. Two of my Colorado riders: Jim and Dave also showed up. We left the riverfront in Muscatine and headed into the wind (westerly). It was a fast paced ride and our average was 17.2 for the 49 mile ride. After a 10 minute break we headed out again, this time north and then west. About half the riders quit after this first 50, but we had 4 new ones join us. Dave and I rode out to Atalissa and then left the group and returned back to Muscatine. I ended up with 79 total miles and after a short break decided to ride around Muscatine for a while until the group returned. At 2pm I joined the group for the 3rd ride of the day and went about 7 miles with them before returning to Muscatine, which gave me exactly 100 miles when I got back to the truck.