OWLS do Victor, Old 37, Strain Ridge, August 11

Greg Simmons led a group of 21 OWLS riders on a pleasant 25 mile ride southwest of town. Mike from New Orleans made a short speech about how much he had enjoyed riding with the club over the summer. He’s heading to Ohio State for graduate school now. He’s already made contact with some riders there.

Greg went over the route in detail and we left the staging area promptly at 5:45. I tried to get a few shots of the group heading out. Ordinarily I tend to be toward the back of the group and it’s often hard to get far enough ahead to stop and take pictures.

Here are a couple of shots take at 5:45-5:46 as we left:

We headed south on Sare Road, then through Olcott Park to pick up the standard club route south out of town. We continued through neighborhoods to Church Lane, then west, picking up Victor Pike as we crossed 37.

We traveled south on Victor, to Ketcham, then south on Old 37 to near Harrodsburg, where we headed toward Lake Monroe. We picked up Strain Ridge toward Smithville. Then we came back into town on Fairfax, Moffet, Harrell, etc.

Here we are at our stop after turning onto Strain Ridge road:
Our final stop in Smithville at the PO. Tom is really enjoying how well he was able to pull Klaus’s leg with his story about riding all of RAAM in his big chain ring, even through the mountains.

Stops were at the service station at Victor Pike and 37, the Ketcham turn onto Old 37, Strain Ridge after turning off Monroe Dam Rd, and the Old Post Office in Smithville.

One feature of OWLS riding this summer has been that we often do a route again but in the opposite direction. We’ve now done this one twice in the counterclockwise direction and once in the clockwise direction.

Here’s a link to a map of the route we took: Victor, Old 37, Strain Ridge Route