6th Annual Wounded Veteran's Run

A full day today. Started off with hitting Cook's to pick up brake pads which will be installed at a later date. From the it was off to the Post to meet up with the rest of the crew who'd be heading in to Boston today for the 6th annual Wounded Veteran's Run.

We wound up with 5 bikes heading in. Not fantastic, but not terrible, either. We made good time, overall (a short stretch of bumper to bumper due to an accident, but then we were back up over the speed limit.

When we arrived, the main lot was full and we were herded past, around,  and out back with a chitload of other folks.

We set our 'stands and ambled up to the dealership and strolled about for a while to kill time until noon; the start of the run.

When noon arrived an announcement went out over the PA system; fire up your bikes!! Hahaha!!! We were parked so far back, it was going to take a while before we were going anywhere.

To the credit of everyone around us, they also knew it'd be a while and nobody started their bikes.

Fast forward; we finally got to roll out and were moving not-too-badly...and then we weren't. Lotsa brake lights, feet down, start 'n stoppin'. The temps were climbing and I didn't want to stress the bike so I kept shutting her down whenever I could see a long line of non-moving bikes in front of me.

Eventually we got into a steady rhythm and we're moving pretty well, right up to the end point (Suffolk Downs). We found a place to park and made our way to the food table, then grabbed some open space to chow down.
Me and our Road Captain both had to be back soon so we wrapped up the feed and headed for the exits.

None of us knew how to get back to known territory so Greg offered to take point. He led us back to familiar roadways without fail, and we were soon ripping along 93, then 95, back to our neck of the woods.

Road Captain Ed pulled up next to me and suggested hitting the Post for a celebratory beerverage and that sounded too good to pass up, so we opened the throttles all the more and were soon backing our rear tires into parking slots at our Legion.

Inside we found friends kicking back and enjoying the beerfreshments available so we took some seats to share in the revelry, and discussed the day.

The weather had broken perfectly. There'd been a chance of rain but that had faded quickly, we had nothing but clear sunshine, and the bikes had come out in droves. We bandied some numbers back and forth and settled on a range of 2,500 - 3,000 bikes. (I felt it was closer to 2,000, but either way; it's impressive as fuck!)

We had an awesome day, there was an immense turnout, and i can't wait to hear how much money was raised today. The beneficiaries of today are 5 very deserving veteran's from New England who were wounded in service. A great day and a great cause!

The first major run of the year and I can't wait for the next one...

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