I've been riding with the Cairo Cycling Club on a pretty regular basis. There are several riders who are very strong and can drop me like a bag of rocks if I don't pay close attention. Even when I am, I'm frequently on the red line a lot more than I'd like to admit.
The normal Friday ride is usually a loop that is somewhere around 70-100km long. It generally takes me out for 2.5-3.5 hours depending on route and whether or not someone has a flat in the group I'm riding with.
On April 30, 14 of us rode from Cairo towards Ein Sukhna on the Red Sea coast. It's about 140km from start to finish with a few reasonably decent hills on it. The road was nice and smooth and the weather was just about perfect with temps in the low-70s and overcast skies keeping the sun at bay.
Eventually the pace broke the field into a couple groups and I stuck with the leaders. Teamwork was great and we managed to do a good job sharing the work and drafting off of each other in a good pace line of 5 riders. Four hours, 140km, 2200 ft later we pulled into the resort town of Ein Sukhna after averaging 22.5 mph.
We saw a bunch of mountain bikers out there for a ride and got quite a bit of attention from the locals. Meg drove down with another rider's wife and took some shots of us. After a quick shower and a nice lunch with a bunch of other riders, we spent the rest of the day at the beach. We were planning on spending the night there, but unfortunately we couldn't get a room. So, with an hour or so left before sunset, we headed home to Cairo.
it was a great ride, a fast ride and finding options like this just barely over an hour from home was great.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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