Bloomin' Metric Ride

[[Saturday night some weather debates were going on at the SBRA Phorum according to Sundays ride conditions, PyZahl could not really understand that -- little chance of rain was on the forecast, so what???]]
This Sunday some of the Birds flew over to CT with that so slow ferry boat to participate in the 30th annual Bloomin' 2007 Metric organized by Sound Cyclists. So PyZahl got up very early at 4:45 to get a good breakfast and get ready for the ride of the first section from his home to the Port Jeff Ferry dock to catch the 7am boat. He took the most scenic (and hilly) route via harbor hills east of Port Jeff.

He got there with plenty of time, well, better than having some trouble on the road and missing it... so bird by bird came in... and we entered the boat and took off on time -- PyZahl was wondering and missing one rider -- nothing to do about it.

A second Coffee on board, some chatting and they arrived at Bridgeport:


They rode the little bumpy way out of the not so magnificent city and merged on the marked 100km route, mostly very nice rolling and smooth roads meandering along water reservoirs and some nice small rivers including waterfalls and mini cascades, a very little mountain feeling comes to PyZahls mind and he moves up and down the rolling terrain at a good pace having fun flying by many other riders. Was there one going faster at all? He be leaves not, but one he was hanging on for a while but dropped back to his group...


He last (and first) food stop was well stocked, as all the others have been :-)
PyZahl eat some goodies at every stop and felt really good riding well fueled.

And the weather, yes, it was just fine, nothing to complain, little wet road in the very beginning, but then it got plenty of warm and turned into a great day -- can it be any better this time of the year?

Days odometer total: 150km.

(CLICK FOR A MAP, note: statistics are messed up by the ferry trip)

(Cleaned up data, Bloomin' ride only)

Here is our the Metric ride in numbers: