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While riding along Wiloray Ave. this afternoon I saw this sitting in someone’s trash: cans from 63 gallons of Stanislaus’ Full Red-brand Tomato Sauce. I can’t help but wonder what someone was doing with that much tomato sauce.
For today’s ride I set out from home at ~4pm with the end goal of meeting Nick and Erik at Rochester Mills at 6pm. I took the more-difficult to Rochester, heading over to Mound then up 25 Mile to Letica and into Rochester. This route is essentially all paved, but it’s almost all up hill, with a bit of rolling hills along the neighborhoods just east of downtown Rochester. After getting to Rochester at around 5pm I headed north along the Paint Creek Trail knowing that Nick and Erik would be coming from that way. Twenty minutes later I ran into them and the three of us headed back towards Rochester. Erik and I then continued down the Clinton River Trail and just barely on to the Macomb Orchard Trail so he could say that he’d ridden on all four regional rail trails every day for two days straight.
After this we returned to Rochester Mills where Danielle was waiting for me with the car where I had a dry change of clothes waiting. This was a good day for riding, and I only wish I’d headed out with Nick and Erik for their full 60 mile route. After getting to the car I was ready to ride quite a bit more, so I guess the 26.1 miles that I did just wasn’t enough. The full 60 may have done me in, but it would at least have been worth trying. Oh well. At least I got to see the tomato sauce.