Let's Join Mark on His Birthday in a Celebration of Life as He Rides his Age

Let's Join Mark on his Birthday as he rides his age in a celebration of Life. (I will let you ask him how old he will be! :)
Because of the long distance (Mark is old) we will do this ride in two parts. We will do the bulk of the ride in the morning while it is cool and then we will finish the ride in coordination with the regular Tuesday night ride at R T O'Sullivan.
We will start the morning portion of the ride from RTO at about 5:15 as the sun is coming up. From RTO we will ride the Greenbelt path north all the way to Horizon Park. At Horizon Park, after a short break (they have facilities) we will head back on a combination of the Scottsdale Greenbelt Trail and the Pima Pathway Trail. Along the way we will stop at Randy's Cafe on Chapparal for a brief rest and maybe a quick snack. Then we will be on our way south again. When we reach RTO we will have covered between 26 and 28 miles. This is a little over half of the goal for the morning. From RTO we will head south on the Greenbelt to Tempe Town Lake and turn west. At about 12 miles from RTO we will turn around and head back to RTO where we will end the morning session with just about 50 miles of riding.
Then in the evening we will ride about 15 miles on the Tuesday night ride which will add up to a total that will be just about equal to Mark's age.
We would hope that you can make it for the whole ride but if that doesn't work with your schedule Mark would still love to see you for any portion (or portions) of the ride that you can attend.

If you have any questions and/or concerns please post them in the Comments and they will be answered.

Hope to see you all on May 13!