Up Rock Crusher Hill

By Allan Edmonds

Thursday evening saw a group of 19 OWLS do their Rock Crusher training ride (about 26 miles), out Vernal, up Oard Road, by the gravel operation, and by the Airport, eventually coming in on Rohrer Road via Eagle View. See Rock Crusher Map (PDF).

The ride was unusual for us because it takes us all the way through town from SE to NW. As a result we got split up. A few of us passed the Bryan Park training group as they headed south, presumably doing their "Thursday night ride" to Harrodsburg. Together our two groups must have had at least 35 riders out for a fine evening ride. I wonder if we might break 50 this summer sometime.

My trailing group got a little behind on Woodyard as we waited for a few people that got caught at a light. As a result we were out of sight of the bulk of the riders and succeeded to miss our turn onto Loesch Rd.

We ended up riding a couple of extra miles, including the serious hills on HartStrait Rd. We communicated with people in the group ahead but never saw them again.

Our little group of six included three board members, which wasn't sufficient to keep us from going astray, and three people on their first OWLS ride. We tried to convince them that we don't always get lost. But I'm not sure they believed us. In any case we all made it back in good shape with only a few extra miles and a slightly slower moving average than usual. So John, Karen and January: hope to see you again soon on an OWLS ride. Next time we promise not to get lost!