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After a morning of classes, we headed down to Manchester for a bike ride this afternoon. Our goal was to find warmer air (it was chilly) and gentle terrain. We succeeded on both counts and had a fine outing.
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Tess, Issy, Brooke, Mackenzie and Sverre cruised along at a nice steady pace.
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Paddy, Kate, Corky, Hamish, Anika, Matt and Andy played the “hare” role, zipping ahead, flatting, zipping by again, waiting and finally passing us (tortoise group) for good 50 minutes into the ride.
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The tulips are up at the Equinox Hotel… we’re about 10 days behind up on the mountain.
We all enjoyed the ride. One of our spring goals is to do a team 100 mile bike ride so today was the first weekend warm up ride. Each weekend we will go a bit further and by early June, we should be ready to roll!
