I'll keep my fingers crossed for a mild twinge!

Well hell, another one bites the dust.........
 
Hang in there, Steve! Here's hoping that it's not too serious. I guess if you have to ease up on your riding, the coming winter months aren't a bad time to do it.  
 
So, it's Paul, Robert, and I for the 100k, Greg and Ray for the 150k. Anyone else coming?

I'll be there for the 100K.  DJ

Wow... It was great seeing so many recuments at yesterday's event.  Since Dan refers to me as a "switch-hitter", I rode my DF.  It was great to officially meet DJ, and see Ken and Robert on the ride.  
 
Here's my ride debriefing.
 
For the first 10 miles or so, Greg, Paul and I were playing see-saw with the lead groups.  Shortly after that I started talking to Sharon Stevens.  Somehow, which is common with me, we missed a turn and had 5 bonus miles.  When we got back on course we caught up with Greg and DJ.  That's when we encountered the road from hell.  Jagged rocks, bumpy road... Yuck....
 
DJ was doing to 100k, so he had to stop at a control in Venus.  I kept going as the first control for the 150k was in Maypearl.  At this point, I was riding alone, and assumed that since I got off course, everyone was way ahead.  A few miles later, a group of "A" riders appeared in my mirror.  As they got closer I heard Pam yell at Dan, slow down you're killing us.  Later he told me that when he saw me ahead, I became the rabbit, and he had to chase down.  Val had a flat, so they all waited for him.
 
I rode the remaining 80 miles with this group.  It consisted of the following "A" riders:
Dan Driscoll
Pam Wright
Mark Metcalf
Sherry
Shellene
Richard Whitaker
Jerry Austin
Robbin Phelps
Val Phelps
We averaged 18-20mph.  On the flats, we rarely were under 20mph.  We were in and out of the control fairly quickly for this size group.  We finished the 100 miles in a little over 6 hours.  That's total ride time, including bonus miles, stopping to change a flat, stops at 3 controls, etc...
 
Around mile 80, I don't remember what town, I was about 100 yards behind the group, catching up after a pee break.  A car pulls out quickly from the left, trying to beat oncoming traffic.  They didn't see me, and "bumped" into my.  I was able to move to the side of the road to negate a significant, eat the pavement, accident.  I quickly caught the group and told them what happened.  We caught this vehicle at a traffic light and followed them into a gas station.   Dan immediately defended me, and began jumping all over her.  The woman driver said she didn't know she hit me and began apologizing since a group of 10 cyclists surrounded her car!  I'm fortunate it wasn't worse.
 
Be careful out there everyone!

Yeah, the route definitely left a lot to be desired. This is actually the FWBA Bicycles Inc metric century route. LSR scheduled this ride to be a joint ride with FWBA, but that part of it fell apart, with the FWBA version starting at 1:00 pm. I had done the FWBA version before, but we didn't hit Rendon Road just at the time the churches were letting out, like we did yesterday. FWBA plans to make the Sunday afternoon Bicycles Inc ride a regular ride during the winter. Unless they change the route, I don't think I'll be joining them again on this ride. The Lone Star Randonneurs usually pick better routes than this.
 
Bad route and all, I still enjoyed the ride. It was great seeing everyone, and all the recumbents about. Glad you weren't seriously hurt, Ray.

Holy crap, Ray - glad you're ok.
 
Steve - you didn't miss anything other than the company (which was excellent, if I may so so.)  The route stunk up the place.  I don't seem to feel any ill-effects despite having to cut my ride short and the burning sensation in my lungs when I breathed.  So hopefully the burn was just crud coming out of my lungs and there's an end to it!
 

I concur with the previous assessments of the route.  DJ