Strawberry Festival Ride

This morning I attended Trailnet's Strawberry Festival Bike Ride in St Jacob's Illinois. I arrived a bit late and didn't get a chance to meet up with anyone, but it was fun nevertheless. This is my second ride of the year and I plan on attending many more. I also picked up a helmet this past week. I really stood out last week. Heck, I may have been one of the only rides without one. It's probably a good idea even if I did buy it due to peer pressure. I chose to to do the middle ride of 24.7 miles today due to the weather(I was worried it would start pouring at any moment). It was actually raining pretty hard when I left my house this morning. Fortunately, St Jacob's isn't all that close(approx 45-50 miles) to Ballwin, MO where I live so the rain stopped somewhere in between. My only gripe of the day had to due with the long line at the Strawberry Shortcake stand afterwards. I chose not to stand in line and wasted my free ticket. Better luck next time.