Week 2 of avoiding Parker and the first 7:30AM ride this year. I like the challenge that Los Rios presents and am not missing Dublin too much. It was tough getting out of bed this morning and I was surprised to see such a large group on the first early ride of the year. We had 34 roll out on the "new" Tweeners route and we managed to keep the pace within the ride description. The group stayed together up until the last hill on Los Rios, when the stronger riders created a natural break. Not wanting to appear too strong, I stayed with the back group. We had a nice helping wind on Renner and the traffic light gods were very good to us. With the early start, today was the first opportunity to add some miles to the ride. So a small group of us went back out and rode another 30 minutes to finish at our normal time. We'll do this every so often and once the ride start times roll back to 7AM, we'll make it an hour. Good group, good ride.