For those few who don't know, Albuquerque has an active recumbent riding club/group that meets for monthly rides around various areas year round, missing rides only when weather is absolutely impossible: usually snow or ice.
Yesterday, Sturday, we had neither snow or ice nor wind or rain.. just BEAUTIFUL weather.
The Hard-Cores of the group must have ridden about 36 miles or so. We met the group at mid-route at the El Pueblo Railrunner parking lot on Paseo near 2nd street and rode from there, and promptly got lost.
Jacque and I were toward the rear of the group, with this being Jacque's first real miles in a year or so, and chugging slow. As we got across the Rio Grande and into busy metro Corrales, the group was way ahead of us and out of sight. We saw a cyclist with a yellow shirt cross the horribly busy intersection onto southbound Corrales Road, and made the mistake of following him. We never saw him again. Luckily there was another ham in the recumbent ride (Kerry WA6BJH) who was in contact with us and finally realized we were headed the WRONG direction on Corrales Rd and waited for us at the Valero station just a block NORTH of where we turned SOUTH. By the time we got to him and he led us toward the direction the main group had gone, the main group was GONE. And no one else with radios in that group, nor did we have the cell number for any of the group. So we rode on for a couple more miles and decided to bag it and go back and wait for them to show up at the announced eventual group destination: Flying Star Restaurant in Corrales. Our son John had called during the ride and decided to meet us there, too. John's an active cyclist too but still enduring the (ouch) diamond frame (DF) upright mode.
Jacque's new Trike performed flawlessly for her and she's still in love with it:
Beginning Battery Voltage: 12.7 Ending Voltage: 12.5
Ride's Lowest Temperature: 66 degrees F -- Highest Temperature: 77 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 11.85
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
04.5 MPH 06.2 MPH 16.0 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 36 mins 1 hours 54 mins 42 mins 33 secs
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