On Friday, July 4, Mark Olin and I were planning on riding from his house in Rochester to Port Huron and back. I've never done a century (100 miles) before so was a little hesitant about going, especially since he wanted to leave at 6 a.m.. Well I decided to go and we started off on the Macomb Orchard Trail at a moderate pace on the the road bikes until we got to 29 mile and cut east to Gratiot. Our plan was to take Gratiot up to Port Huron. We were cruising around 19-20 which was a good pace for me behind him. Once we got to Gratiot though, Mark got a flat. We tried fixing it using a CO2 cartridge and blew the tube. I tried it again and realized that he had a groove cut into the sidewall of his tire due to some rubbing. We tried inflating the tire but the tube herniated out of the tear. Mark called his wife to come get us while we sat at the gas station for about a half hour. We only ended up with 22 miles.
On Sunday, Will, Jason, Mark, some other guy, and I went for a dirt road ride. We ended up doing 50 miles heading up to Dryden and back. We did some of the Paint Creek and Polly Ann Trails. Once again, Mark and I ran into trouble. He got a stick stuck in his front tire and wiped out into my direction. I didn't have any time to react, so I ran him over and then fell myself. I was ok, but Mark was bleeding a bit from his leg. It was pretty sweet to see that my tire mark was on his jersey. I'll have to remember to stay away from him on rides. Oh yeah, Jason actually did the 50 miles. No one at the store believe that he did that many miles since he hasn't been riding lately and needed as a witness to prove that he did ride the miles. Miles to date: 1105
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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