Jul-4: 8 am - Rushmore goes to school

Jul-4:

PUE - 8 am: lake loop counter-clockwise + RockSprings + Northside; w/ Rushmore; 47.5 miles; est 1895 ft climbed ---> effort = 66; 2hrs, 55min; 16.2 mph.

1st Qt. tot: 20 rides; 755.3 m.; 47 hrs, 31 min; 15.9 mph.
2nd Qt. tot: 43 rides; 2124.3 m.; 134 hrs, 59 min; 15.7 mph.
Jul tot: 3 rides; 154.0 m.; 9 hrs, 18 min; 16.5 mph.
YTD: 66 rides; 3033.6 m.; 191 hrs, 48 min; 15.8 mph.

I took Rushmore to school on Saturday. I figured that instead of just pointing out the landmarks upon approaching each CL, the best way to impress upon him where they were was to create an indelible memory for each.

I laid the "smack" down on (from road-county / onto(into) road-county):

1) NewLight / BruceGarner (Wake / Granville),
2) RockSprings / BeaverDam (Granville / Wake),
3) WillSuitt / Boyce (Granville / Wake), and
4) Cheek Rd across Falls Lake (Wake / Durham)

-- after this CL, Rushmore inquired regarding how many counties we had ridden in -- only 5 CLs to that point -- 6 for the whole ride. Oh, and only three distinct coutnies.

Luckily, the re-crossing from Wake into Granville county occured at the turn from OldWeaver onto Cash Rd, so that is not really a "contestable" CL. Lucky because Rushmore climbed up from the lake faster than me.

He did take the CarpenterPond (Durham / Wake) CL. I had to give him 5 or 6 miles of warning (because he thought that when I caught him climbing DocNichols and passed him that there must be another CL just ahead). (Did you catch from that previous phrase that I let him take a lead on the uphill DocNichols and then chased him down and passed him? For more on why I did that see: Lynn , staring with about the 6th or 7th "paragraph".) .