Bulldog Bike Race - CycleRoad Race

I've never done a bike race and it's really all about staying with a pack and strategy. I stayed with the first half of the women (last wave all women) for almost the first half of the race. Fell behind on the big mile long hill and then never really caught up. My age group has some hellish cyclists.
I worked really hard though and averaged 18 miles per hour. One of my sister VB's came up and I started riding with her the last 8miles or so. We took turns leading and it's really cool how that drafting thing works. You just can't do that in a tri. So a really new experience for me. I was part of a peleton!

Work harder to stay with them up the hill. If I were really going for it on this race I would have trained hard, but this was really a training day that included this hard ride for me.

Hung out afterwards, watched many of our VB's get hardware. :) Ate some oranges and drank some cold water. Rode back to the harbor, another 13 1/2 miles back to the car. I rode pretty steady on it though. My legs were a little toasty.
I got sunburned a bit on my arms. Didn't put sunscreen on because I started out with long sleeves and forgot.


Hills are hard.


The Marines know how to run a race, run it on time and many "congratuations maam" were heard. Very polite young men/women.