A beautiful late June night, with lots of riders tonight. I rode over there to start, at an easy 15 mph pace, since Amy had the car, and then she picked me up later after the pizza and beer at about 730. It was only about 6 miles to the start, although mostly uphill, on Liberty Square Road. Big group of riders, I went with the first group for the flat ride. Forrest had a flat on Bear Road, so we waited, and then rode slowly, I guess he never re-joined us. There was another group behind us, they were waiting for Phil Posner. Eventually we got going pretty fast, I did some of the pulling for the first ten miles, but then hung out at the back the second half, almost got dropped on Martin Street, had to work my way back. Also, when I stopped at Adams to grab a bar, I lost contact, but got back on Finn Road. We rejoined the second group on South Acton Road, I guess they didn't go on Liberty and Tuttle, and they were pretty strong, but we caught up to them. After the lights into Cisco, I rode at the front behind two guys who were pulling strong, riding alongside Nicole, who was very strong. Thanks to Tylenol and Advil my back and butt and hammy and psoas didn't hurt too much.