Tour de Blount - CycleCentury

Not a "Race" exactly (no chips or awards or whatever) just a good Century bike ride.

I felt great throughout the day. The "plan" was to ride with my roommate and just enjoy the day. However, I was just feeling too good to play around, so about 3 miles in I turned up the heat. I'm really turning myself into a Mountain Goat... one guy commented as I passed him that I was going faster uphill than I was on the flats. I just love that feeling when you are going up and everybody is hurting and you pass them and you can literally feel/hear them sigh. Haha I think that makes me a bad person.

Only one corner really (almost) got me. Early in the ride (when it was still grouped up) I was following a couple of guys wheels, and a sharp descent sent THREE of them straight off into the field. I contemplated bailing, but at the last moment skidded back onto the road. Close call, my fault for not staying aware.

I averaged some pretty solid power numbers too (for me at least) so all in all a great day.

Not piddle around at the rest stops waiting on my roommate so long. (Never saw him anyways)

Got back to the car, racked my bike, checked some of my averages (17+mph on an uphill course...yeah I'll take that)

Stretched and grabbed some water. Waited around about 45 minutes for my roommate to show up. Took some Verbal abuse from him ("I can't believe you talked me into this" and "I thought you said this was going to be a recovery ride?" were some choice ones) Went and grabbed a beer and took a nap.


My legs. Gotta get stronger.


Good rest stops packed with some goodies, also some great help from the local police.

Race Day Events always puts on a good show, this was no exception.