Late Friday is a dinner and Saturday morning there is breakfast. There is often a short ride Friday afternoon. Saturday there are different rides to choose from followed by dinner Saturday night. Sunday there is a breakfast followed by a choice of rides (usually a remote start ride around Keuka Lake), breaking camp and departure.

This year there were some new routes for Saturday with options from 18 miles to 93 miles. I decided to try the 80 or 93 mile route (the choice being made at about 58 miles). I planned on doing the 93 only if I was feeling really good at the decision point.

It was also very hot this year. Several of us decided to get up early and get going, skipping the breakfast in camp and having breakfast in Hammondsport, about 40 miles into the ride. Wilf, Jim, and I left just before 6. Wilf took off just after we got up the first hill out of camp. Jim and I stayed together until about 52 miles when he was out of sight and I pulled into a rest stop set up at a winery.

The morning riding was very pleasant with lots of good views. By afternoon, it was really hot with the high somehwere in the 90s. In the climb out of Dundee, I started to cramp, variously a left or right quad or hamstring. I would get off the bike and sit or stand for a few minutes to let the cramp subside. After a few episodes of this I decided to push the bike along until the cramp subsided. Finally, everything cramped at once and I was barely able to get off the bike and get it off the road. Nina and Bob and Pete and Ray stopped to help. Nina called the SAG for me. I had to give up with only about 1 to 2 miles to go to the top of the hill and probably less than 100 feet of climbing to get to the long downhill into camp. Bummer!

The SAG ride was interesting. By the time we got my bike on the top, a few other riders had collected and wanted to borrow the pump. Finally we were ready to go, but the SAG van had a dead battery. Anticipating this, John, the SAG driver, had a second battery, but it too was almost dead. He just barely got the engine to start. Then we headed off to pick up Sean (or Shawn?) and Laura who had said they were waiting just past a railroad underpass. No underpasses on the marked routes. John suspected they missed a turn, studied the map and found a likely spot. Sure enough we found them. On the way there I wondered why he took wide turns at high speed. Turns out his only gear was 3rd forward (no 1st, 2nd or reverse). After picking up Sean and Laura, he turned uphill without enough speed and the engine died. So we rolled backwards a good way down to Watkins Glen until he found an uphill driveway to back into where he could get the engine going by rolling downhill and then pick up enough speed to get going. I thought about putting my helmet back on, but decided it would show a lack of confidence!

Probably the cramps were due to lack of electrolytes. Don gave me some Garorade powder which I mixed and drank, but I continued to have occasional cramps for the rest of the evening and even Sunday morning. I didn't ride Sunday. Also, I didn't take any pictures Saturday night. One of the main events was a hula-hooping contest organized by Steve Bruno. There was a band and there were slide shows by Paul and Nancy. By the time the bonfire got going, Jane and I were headed to our tent for bed!

The pictures I did manage to take are from Friday evening and Saturday morning.

	Here's Jane with our camp on Friday evening before dinner.		About 16 miles out, we crested a hill and had this great view of Lakes Lamoka (foreground) and Waneta. We rode along the far edge of Lamoka and the downhill was vas very steep. I hit 47 mph!
	A dilapidated barn!		The first glimpse of Keuka Lake (sorry for the tilt - I snapped this while riding!).
	A little later we got a great view of Keuka. Here's a series of four shots from north to south.		Photo 2 in the sequence.
	Photo 3 in the sequence.		Photo 4 and last in the sequence.
	About 52 miles out I lost Jim when I pulled into a rest stop that had been set up at a winery. At 59 miles or so on the 80 mile route, is the Windmill, an Amish flea market open only on Saturdays. Here are riders getting set to continue from the Windmill.		Some of the riders and bikes in the "parking lot" at the Windmill.
	A banjo band at the Windmill right next to the "parking lot." Much better than the chain saw sculptor who was working next to the lot when I first got there!		The GPS track of the ride overlain on a USGS topographic map by GPS Visualizer. Thee ride started at the camp ground in the lower right and went clockwise. The end point is where I SAGged - just inside the last elevation contour with perhaps a mile or two to go before the downhill into camp! Bill A., our route planner, did a great job of getting us to Hammondsport while avoiding the steepest climbs. You can tell by the fact that the route goes mostly along the elevation contours rather than across. Of course, sometimes it can't be avoided and you have to go across!
	The elevation profile and the total climb for as much of the 80 mile route (probably it was slightly less than 79 miles) as I did before cramping up. The "vertical" downhill at about mile 16 is where I hit 47 mph. The relatively flat part between miles 34 and 48 is the loop around Hammondsport and the ride along the east side of Keuka. The Windmill is about mile 59 and Dundee is in the dip at about mile 64.