After riding alongside my wife for four miles while she ran, I broke off and then met up with my five cycling amigos on the east side of Pembroke Lakes Mall.
Leaving the mall area right after eight in the morning, we proceeded on Hiatus Road for two miles prior to ducking into safer streets in the residential area of Rock Creek. Even on the tree lined residential roads we are not in safe harbor, but it was a darn sight safer than the main thoroughfare roads.
After passing through Pembroke Pines, Cooper City and then Davie, we made our grand entrance into Weston's Einstein's Coffee Shoppe wearing our multi-colored cycling kits. We sort of stood out among the other patrons, in a good way.
After refueling or bodies, Sandy S. and I decided to go back by ourselves using a different route, making a short stop in Vista View Park to (A) Watch the model airplanes! (B) Do a hill climb! and (C) Measure the grade of Mt. Trashmore by using one of our smart phones! We learned that the grade was somewhere between 10 to 12 degrees. We think it is at least 15 degrees in most places.
Anyway, after fiddling around in the park for 10 minutes or so, we drove west through the park’s riding trails and soon discovered a walk-through in the perimeter fence large enough to enter and exit with a road bike. This was a nice find for future rides.
After biking on an asphalt trail that runs alongside Orange Drive, we then cut across the canal and headed east on Griffin Road. Griffin Road has semi-wide bike lanes on both sides of the road heading in each direction.
Exiting Griffin Road after maybe three or four miles, we then drove through a ranch area that provided us with an open road for maybe two miles. It was there that we were able to open up the throttles a bit to just over 20 mph into a headwind that was determined to be in our faces no matter what direction we traveled.
From there on, all the way back to the barn, it was tense riding for three miles because of the threatening manner in which arrogant motorists drive. Some of them refused to give us our legal three feet even though they had empty lanes on their left. Sandy S. rightfully pointed out one particular moron that was driving a white Corvette.
I suppose wearing my high viz, lime-green jersey doesn't mean crap whenever some butt-brain, arrogant SOB wants to show and prove their ignorance. Enough said on that matter!
All in all, though, this morning's ride was very enjoyable. The weather was perfect for biking or doing anything else in the great outdoors – even flying model airplanes.
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