Author: Liz Malone

MV 05-13-17

Save the date!  The Martha’s Vineyard Tour will be May 13 2017.

We will ride the ferry over to MV for a 50 mile tour. We will meet at the Woodshole Ferry Building and take the MV Steamship authority to MV.

Go to Depot Avenue in Falmouth MA for parking.
Please park your bike at the bike path parking lot for the Shining Sea Trail. Ride to the Ferry Building. The bike path terminates at the Ferry Building. The parking on the bike path is free.

You must purchase a round trip ticket(good for both locations) and a bike ticket. Total cost is $21. We will take the 8:15 boat to Vineyard Haven.

This is an all day ride. We will stop for lunch on the ride.
Please RSVP via facebook.  The Facebook event is at https://www.facebook.com/events/1436027236430846/.  The page on strava shows the route. See https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/137917.  You may RSVP on strava instead of Facebook.

Thanks,

Bill

Hanson 03-05-17

Mike & BillDue to the predicted cold in Halifax and Hanson for the weekend we will keep it to the 30 mile-ish course or 24 miles. The ride start time will be 10AM. We are delaying by an hour to let it warm up. It will be better. I promise!

Hanson Sunday at 10 AM.

Mike

It was a nice ride, today. We had a fair bit of wind on every turn. We went for 24 miles on a different combinations of roads. This new alternative route uses Elm Street in Hanson, which passes the ponds of the WMA Burrage.  This avoided the dreaded Oak street in Plympton.  Although the scenic value of Plympton is great.  It is nice to ride something different on occasion.
 
Some of us took the southern approach to the High Street hill and others went the back way to the western approach. Surprisingly, my power readings were not too high. The power reading was 174 on the average. So, speed requires more power than wind. I am sticking to that story for now.
Mike was not feeling, well.  We might have the Wednesday ride this week. Stay tuned.
2-26-17 Leaderboard
The competition for the leader board is fast and furious as ever.  The winter does not seem to slow many of these folks.  Brian took the lead on the board, this week.  There was a good ride on Thursday with a peak reaching the 70F mark.  You can find the leaderboard on our Strava page.  Look to the right on this page to see recent rides that have been uploaded to Strava.
The 70 Degree day
Brian, Mike, & John in Scituate on Thursday