My 100th post!

So, for us poor working stiffs... there comes a time every year when riding gets harder to do. I love coming home from work at 6 or 6:15 in the summer and going for ride! Those of you that work at a bike shop and don't have to be to work until 10am... I'll be nice and just say I envy you. In order to get adequate time to ride during the week, we nightride!
In the past, my nightriding has been mostly in the woods. BikeBeat used to have a good MTB ride to Ipswich, which I have tried recently to resurrect. We have been meeting at 7 at the Kempsville shop. 3 laps in Indian River Park makes the ride about 20 miles total.
My homie Greg and I had a good after work ride schedule going this summer. The rides got shorter and shorter as the light faded earlier. Why should we stop riding just because it's dark? Because its dangerous on the roads with cars! The main reason to take to the woods. There is a few country roads, close to my house, that have very little traffic on them. They go by Fentress Airfield, but have no reason to drive down them unless you live on them. Armed with blinking taillights, and HID headlights, we set out to take advantage of the still mild weather.
Leave my drive way, across Centerville Turnpike, cut through Blooms' lot, ride about 50 feet down Mount Pleasant road, and right onto Schoolhouse Road. That puts us on Blueridge Road, and another side road, which we can make about 16 miles. Do this twice for 36 miles by the time we get back and that makes for a nice ride. Maybe get passed by 4 or 5 cars all night. We even have a " I guarantee you'll sprint" point each lap. I'll tell about that in my 101st post.