[OrRando] woodburn heartburn...

[joel metz]

a pity i didnt really get to meet most of you, thanks to our little 
groups late arrival due to insistance on getting ourselves to ride 
starts by bike or public transit whenever we can :)

nevertheless, a fantastic ride - im sure everyone will join me in 
praising the stellar weather - nice and sunny, just enough to warm 
you, but cool temps and little to no wind... a fine, fine course 
indeed, as well - my camera crapped out early on in the ride, so i 
dont have any pics of my own, but tony (one of our group of three) 
was taking pictures like a madman, so hell probably have a page up 
sooner or later. lots of pastoral landscape shots, i am certain.

this was a threshing out ride for both me and my bike - i hadnt done 
any rides of any distance since my last 200k in march of last year 
down in sf, and it was the first real ride for my "new" bike. i 
survived well (though realizing my current lousy condition) and the 
bike only rattled loose a nut from a fender eyebolt. not bad, if you 
ask me.

to anyone who didnt stop in woodburn for mexican food, we may HIGHLY 
recommend medozas, just to your left as you cross the tracks heading 
back out of woodburn. *excellent* tacos, the best ive had since 
moving to oregon.

anyhow, ill be writing up a bigger report probably this evening, and 
posting that at my rando pages at 
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/randonneuring/ - hopefully with a link to 
tonys pics soon.

again, a pleasure to meet those of you i did, and the rest, ill catch 
you at the april 1st 200k.

cheers

-joel

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joel metz  : magpie at blackbirdsf.org :  http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
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