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The Ironbutt Ride that Wasn't

I was sitting watching TV doing a bit of cat napping when the phone startled me awake. On the other end of the line was one of the people I ride with, Ruby-do.

She invites me (and says she is inviting the whole crew that ride together) to her house on Friday night for a soup bean and cornbread supper.

I ask, "What should I bring?"

"A few loaves of your homemade beer bread," she tells me.

"Sho nuff," I reply.

I arrive at Ruby-do's Friday nite with warm bread and 10 bottles of homemade pear wine.

We eat, we drink, we tell tales, we drink and tell mo' tales. We are most near done eating when Ruby-do springs it upon us. She is noted for her surprises.

"Hows bout we all do an ironbutt run? Ed, you done one before haven't you?" she says.

"Yes," I reply.

"How tough was it?" she says.

"Well, well, it's like this," I say. "It's been many years ago and my poor old body has never fully recovered yet. The one I did was the thousand in one."

Several people opted out immediately. Some of us old fools said that it was a darn tough ride. "But, I'll try again," I said.

Ruby-do says she has already done the leg work mapping out the route. She suggests we all get our bikes ready.

The fateful morning arrives. At Ruby-do's suggestion we all bunk at her place so we would all be ready and not cause a time delay.

We hit the road. To get us through the first six hours, we got the bikes gassed up ahead of time and took junk food and drinks with us. Then at between 8-9 hours an emergency came up. An unexpected call from nature along the side of the road. Naturally this upset ole Ruby-do who said it would throw off her time table. Women just don't understand when a guy's gotta go, you gotta go NOW!

We got back on the road and made up lost time. In fact we got ahead of schedule. At about 14 hours, the 'ole slave driver had scheduled a rest stop. Cause we were ahead of time we could get an extra 17 minutes, yes a damn extra 17 minutes of rest time. This gave us about 45 minutes or so of rest.

Some laid on picnic tables, some on the grass. I sat against a tree. Sometime later we were all awakened by loud cussing and yelling.

Seems as if Miss Wonderful let us over-sleep by about four hours. Stuff like this caused us to can the ironbutt run.

We finished the ride at a more leisurely pace and enjoyed the ride more. Miss wonderful Ruby-do tells us she will reschedule the ride and we will try again.

Ruby-do was threatened with bodily harm which included broken bones and items put where the sun does not shine.

We all laugh and joke about this now. Everyone but ole you know who. -- edeee2

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