At 8:00 am this morning, Greg and I left the Shell station at Crowley Road and Main Street in Crowley to ride my Crowley Cricket Crunch 158k permanent. This route goes through Burleson and southeast to Grandview for the second control at mile 32. From there, it’s south 4 miles, then west all the way to Blum at mile 51 for the next control. It then heads northeast to Cleburne for the next control at mile 75, then north back to Crowley.

It was 46 degrees with heavy fog when we left. That made it pretty chilly, and kept my sunglasses covered with mist for the first miles. And an unforeseen problem turned out to be all the mud on the roads. With all the wet weather we’ve had, so all the muddy fields, with trucks dragging that mud onto the roads, there was more mud on the county roads than I’ve ever seen. The morning fog made it really slimy in places, and it really trashed our bikes, and made riding dicey here and there.

But the sun finally made it out, and things dried up nicely. We had a nice tailwind coming back north, and it was a great ride. We rode from my house to the ride start, so I ended up with 103.3 miles. On the bike average was 15.7, and total time was 7:42. Thanks for joining me, Greg!

Crowley Cricket Crunch route