Tuesday Moderate Ride – June 6th – 9:00 AM – Panera
There is nothing on the Tuesday moderate ride schedule this week other than a generic moderate ride. At the height of the cycling season (that would be now and the next couple of months) most of the Tuesday rides are scheduled in advance for a specific destination. I do like to keep a handful of free dates in the schedule. Mostly these are used as rain dates. You may have noticed that April and May have been unnaturally dry making rain dates unnecessary. Sometimes I’ll try out a new route that I have been working on, but at the moment everything I’m thinking about is either longer than the typical Tuesday ride, a remote start, or both. When in doubt my usual fall back is to ride out through Rivrwoods with lunch at Greek Feast, but that ride is actually on the schedule three weeks from this Tuesday. So, this week we’ll do something entirely different.
We’ll be riding to the Halsted Street Deli in Vernon Hills. This is a regular destination for the Wednesday Fast Ride, but not someplace the Tuesday Moderate Ride has ever gone. Here is a link to the route I will more or less be using: Weds Fast 2021 - A bike ride in Wilmette, IL (ridewithgps.com), Please note that the route as presented begins a Centennial Ice Rink; we will, however, be starting from Panera in Wilmette the same as usual. The route will also be altered to accommodate the construction on Cherry in Northbrook. Our total distance will be a tad more than 40 miles. I will ride at a moderate (13 – 15 mph) pace. With enough interest there will be a second slightly faster group led by Will.
Tuesday’s weather looks promising – a high temperature of 71 degrees with winds from the NNE at 10 to 15 mph and only a 12% chance of rain.