I rode over to the planned Tucson Recumbent Cyclists Jesse Owen's ride, then we did the ride with a little variation. Then I rode home.
Randy, Linda, and I were the only ones on this ride. As we rode past Melpomene along Old Spanish Trail, I asked Randy if he had ever ridden Melpomene down to Golf Links and back over to Old Spanish Trail. He hadn't and thought it might be interesting. After asking Linda if she was game for the deviation, we took that route. I like that variation. When Golf Links met up with Old Spanish Trail, less than 0.1 mile longer than OSP, Randy asked if we could continue on Golf Links over to Freeman and up Freeman. After we explained what the hills were like to Linda, she agreed. We set out. Half-way down Golf Links as we were climbing one of the hills, Randy fell behind and had turned around. After a bit of waiting at the top of the hill, I decided to go back and see what was going on. There was some difficulty with his chain ring derailleur malfunctioning. He got it working, but it bothered him for much of the rest of the ride.
My trike was squeaking quite a bit and we tried tightening the thing that holds the freewheel on, but that made no difference. After a while, it was determined that it was my seat squeaking. There was nothing we could do about that, but at least it wasn't something with the gears.
Overall, this was a fun ride and gave me over a 1000 ft of climbing - 686 ft of climbing during the TRC ride.