Sunday was a beautiful day for riding. Most of the group rode about 40 miles, but Mike skipped portions of the ride and ended up going about 28 miles for the “B” group. There is a set of photos of the ride on our website, www.mathewsfreewheelers.org.
With spring comes the Tour de Chespeake
This year’s Tour de Chesapeake bicycle ride in Mathews will be on Saturday, May 16th. The Mathews Rotary Club, which includes many of our riders, will be providing a rest stop for the ride as well as holding our annual Sausage and Beer Fest in “downtown” Mathews, just a couple hundred yards from the start and finish of the Tour de Chesapeake ride. Stop by and celebrate the end of the ride from 1 to 5 PM on Saturday.
Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Virginia border the Mobjack Bay. These counties are part of the Middle Peninsula area. The land is very flat in Mathews, mostly flat in Gloucester and Middlesex. What we lack in hills we sometimes make up in wind, though. We have an informal bicycling group which meets on Sundays at 2 PM at Liberty Square ( the new Mathews County Courthouse ) and on Thursdays during daylight savings time in Yorktown, VA at the “downtown” parking garage. For details on these rides see our companion web site, mathewsfreewheelers.org.