Started early to pick up some extra miles.  Rode down to Karl's house, and quickly remembered why I gave myself some extra time.  The wind was brutal and from the south-west.  It started out strong, and ended up very gusty and difficult, especially on some bridges. On the way down Summit, I picked up Sharon.  We rode down to Karl's, and despite telling him the wrong location, we met up with him.  We then rode to Becky's, and picked her up.  Then, to the real start, Old Navy, and picked up Mike.  No one else showed there, so we rolled to Chinn Chapel and picked up the Goffs.  Formal ride was to be 45 miles, with a train ride in the middle. We basically dropped the Goffs on Jim Christal, and they met back up on Hickory (same street) and Industrial (Fuzzy's Tacos!) Fuzzy's meal stop was a whopping 30 mins.  Very efficient.  We all decided to skip the train.  We rolled by the station and took the Katy Trail down to Mayhill.  We pulled away from the Goffs pretty quick, and felt kind of bad.  However, they knew their route, and had already said they would do their own thing. Once on Mayhill, Mike bonked out, and peeled off once back to Chinn Chapel.  The rest of us stopped off at Casa de Burmeister, where we were plied with banana pudding and Dr Pepper. mMMMMm! From there, we decided to just make it a fondo (130km or ~80mi).  We squiggled around and Becky parted ways south of Downing Middle School so she could go to work, and Sharon, Karl and I battled the wind a little longer to pick up the rest of our miles. The last 25 miles were all at that point where there is no getting worse or slower.  We were depleted and still rolling. In the end, the three of us had 80 miles. It was a great and challenging ride, with good friends. http://www.strava.com/activities/224614433