WWO - Mt. Vernon and North Beach

Midway through June, Deidre, Katie, Chris, and I rode to Mt. Vernon for a hot Sunday morning ride. I rode from home and met everyone else in Shirlington. From there, we took the connector to the GW parkway trail which we rode to Mt. Vernon and then back to Old Town.

We stopped at Chadwick's for lunch--one of my favorite things to do on a bike ride! :) Service was slow so the ride ended up taking up a good part of the day, but it was worth it in the end. I had to hoof it home from Shirlington by myself, but I was happy to log 56 miles for the day. hootyhoo!

Why no pics? Maybe because it was 94 degrees. Rats.

A few weeks later, Laurie and I went on a Washington Women Outdoors ride at North Beach on the Eastern shore. A beautiful day, and Laurie's first official organized ride. Also our second ride together. She's been out logging the miles trying to get ready for France.

I like the women in this organization but their rides are geared too much to taking care of the beginners and not to facilitating the ride for the more advanced riders. They ride a little slow and don't want you to pass the leader. .

Here's Laurie enjoying the open road!

Also, on this ride, we used the "Ann Brown" method which means that whoever is second behind the leader at a turn has to stay at the turn to direct folks until the sweep has come through. This meant I ended up waiting for over 30 minutes just 2 miles from the finish. When the sweep never came, I left and went to the finish where I found Laurie waiting. Annoying. But STILL, a fun day! North Beach was quaint and beachy. Would definitely go back