For the
Quivira Park Bike Group Ride 18 we rode the
Lake Lenexa Route, which is a 38.7 mile course that includes the famous "Oh My Ogg Hill". The weather was in the low 70's at the start and low 80's at the end of the ride with a fairly brisk wind from the northwest of about 8-10 MPH. Humidity was in the mid-range so a very nice morning.
We had 18 riders and not pictured to the left is Joe who had to cut out early before the SAG stop at the
Charles J. Stump Park, which is our usual SAG for this route. The picture was taken at the children's playground at the park. Notice the dinosaur!
Rob, our resident bicycle photographer and the Chief Photographer with KCTV-5 and KSMO-62 here in Kansas City, took a number of great pictures. This one is of the group leaving Quivira Park. Unfortunately a number of times we got so spread out we kept some of the faster riders waiting. One wait was when Dan, a new rider, and I thought there were still some riders behind us before we made the turn onto College Road and so we backtracked only to find them at the
Black Hoof Park, at Lake Lenexa one of our meet-up spots.
We also had a slight delay because Marshall had a flat soon after we started down 127th Street so we stopped at the Johnson County Library on Black Bob Road to change it out. Thanks to the Quivira Park Bike Group Pit Crew we had him up and rolling again in about 15 minutes. Joe also got to use his first CO2 cartridge! I don't want to talk about how many I have used with all my flats this year. Fortunately the new tires with Kevlar are working great!
This picture shows us going up Ogg Road on the "Oh My Ogg Hill". It is hard to tell from this picture but the hill has about a 14 degrees rate of climb at this point and then keeps going up after the road turns to the right. Lots of fun if you like hills!
The last picture shows Dan and Chris exhausted after the long climb up Ogg. A map of the entire route can be uploaded from my
Garmin and it includes the distance to and from my house. Total distance was 72.09 kilometers and average speed was 23.6 KPH for my ride.
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