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Wanting to show some people around Addison Oaks, Bob set up a group ride, the Tour-de-Addision, for there today.
This morphed a bit, with some of us riding up from Rochester Mills.
This was a really great ride, totaling somewhere around 40-42 miles. We rode up to Addison Oaks via the Paint Creek Trail and some dirt roads, two laps around the park’s single track loop, through Bald Mountain, then out to the PCT again. On the way back the three people I was with (Nick, Jon, and Erik) were really pushing each other, holding a solid 22MPH for the roughly 8.5 miles from Lake Orion to Rochester. I was able to hang on behind them for a while, but once they got up near 25MPH I was lost.
After making it back to Rochester we all had food and beer at the Mills, then Erik, Kristi, and I walked over to Bean & Leaf for coffee. Unfortuntely my stupid-in-retrospect choice of espresso pushed me over the edge, and I ended up with a good bit of heat exhaustion. By the time I got home the feeling of a migraine was coming, I was really sleepy, and nausea was coming on. With this being signs of heat exhaustion and/or dehydration the AC was turned on, and I went to lay in the basement while sipping cool water. After mixed napping and drinking of cold beverages for three hours I’m feeling better, but I still haven’t had to urinate. Hopefully soon.