I received feedback that some do not like to read the diatribe that goes with my substitute ride announcements. They just want to know about the ride. So the manifesto will follow the ride announcement.
We will have a boring and flat ride down Meggison to the Enclave Loop. It will be a sanity Saturday so the pace will be 16-18 MPH on the way down. Temperatures will be 78 degrees at the start and 85 degrees at the end. Winds will be light out of the South/Southwest.
Expect sunny skies and little chance of rain. We hope you can join us. For those that would like a little more speed on their Saturday ride, we will break into fast and faster groups after the break at Homestead RC is there is enough interest.
Here is the route: (once again copied as a tribute to our missing ride leader)
The likely turns:
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Left on Pinellas
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Left. Buena Vista
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Left. Meggison
and stay on the road for several miles.
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Left. Chandler
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Left. Lake Denham, which is The Enclave loop
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Right. Chandler
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Right. Meggison
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Break at the Homestead RC
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Continue RIGHT
on Meggison
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Cross Warm Springs
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🚲🚲 optional sprint begins at the Levi Villas circle
You may stop reading now or you can continue and find the real reason that ride leader Nat does not use ride with GPS. We all know that the Chinese government uses TikTok to get the dirt and details on U.S. citizens. Nat discovered that this is just the tip
of the proverbial iceberg. The Chinese government's real espionage tool is RideWithGPS. After extensive spy work, Nat discovered the Chinese plan an invasion of the U.S. in a few years. Their government knows that once they are on American soil, there will
be an uprising by the locals to repel the invasion. The most capable freedom fighters will be those that are the most fit. Therefore, the Chinese have been collecting this data and will immediately put these athletes into camps to prevent them from fighting
the invaders. This sadly means that people that ride with Bill, Terry and Don will be quickly rounded up because they have gladly given their exercise activity to a foreign government. But not those that ride with Nat. He saw through their plans so he and
his team of riders would be under the radar. He will organize his bike group into a fighting unit that will use sabotage and guerilla tactics to repel the Chinese invasion. Once defeated, Congress will erect a statue to honor Nat and those in his army.
He will be known as The Geriatric General.
So next time you complain about getting lost or missing a turn on Nat's ride, think about your country and the stories you will have for your grandkids.
Some of you skeptics are saying, isn't this a lot like the plot for the movie "Red Dawn" except with senior citizens instead of high school students. Yes, life often imitates great art. (and by great, I mean the original one with Patrick Swayze and not the
crappy remake)