On June 16th. I rode from The Woodlands to College Station. This was a planned ride by one of the Team BTX members as a way to prepare for Hotter'n Hell in just over 2 months. The goal was to have sag support and a nice bunch of riders to make the trip more enjoyable. Vanessa decided to drive and help provide sag support.
I left from the shell station at 2920 and 2978 and rode up to The Woodlands. This netted me just over 9 miles to warm up. Since Gary wanted to ride with me then turn around at some point. I waited on him to get to the shell station before taking off. We were a little later than planned but made good time on 2978. We got to the start point just a few minutes before the group headed out.
The route was to ride Woodlands Pky to 2978. Then up Hona-Egypt rd to 2854. After a brief rest stop, we rode 2854 to 105, then on into Montgomery. In Montgomery we had another short rest stop. After Montgomery we rode our normal route to Richards on 1486. Richards made our 3rd break point. From there we rode 149 into Anderson.
Anderson gave us a good break point. We waited for the rest of the group to catch up. This was also a good place to dry off a little because we got a good rain between Richards and Anderson. From Anderson we headed up HW90 to 244. We followed 244 and enjoyed the nice downhill ride for a while. When we got to Carlos, at HW 30, we stopped at the store to regroup.
HW30 was a nice route with a nice wide shoulder except for 3 bridges. Luckily the traffic was nice and waited for us to pass. They did not have to wait long since the bridges were fairly short. We rode along HW 30 until we reached Bird Pond Road. It was starting to rain pretty good when we got to Bird Pond so we regrouped there near the 90 mile point.
We headed down Bird Pond to Rock Prairie Road then over to HWY 6. At HWY 6 we regrouped at the gas station. This was where those who were ready to finish went straight to the house we were finishing at, the rest of us went for a ride through the Texas A&M campus. Taking the trek through the campus rounded out my ride to 102 miles.
