Regular hill-climb ride; our own private Iowa

10.03.19
I've been organizing a regular invitational Tuesday hill-climb ride using a route which was originated by a friend from my club. We are about 7 weeks in. Response has been good, with usually 4 or more of us riding together each time, starting and ending at a diner where we have a socializing lunch at the end of the ride. These are hills in the South Jersey sense, with only about 1400' of climbing over 34 miles (there is a 39-mile option with 1600'). But the route is a good one for pushing the pace and working on becoming a stronger rider, eating together and catching up with each other afterward, while still leaving plenty of time in the day for getting other things done. And the route is mostly back roads thru some real nice farm country in Salem and Gloucester Counties, with plenty of corn and soybean fields, silos, livestock, woods and water making for a scenic ride. One might think they were in Iowa.