So we ride out of town at 6:15ish. Just starting to get light out. I was with my wife Michele, my friend Tim and his wife Karen. We were the only ones starting this early. Karen has a flat at about 15 miles. So we pull over right infront of this dumpy trailer with a homemade tiny town out front and signs all over, one reading stop your bitchin. So a small dog wanders over and we pet it and stuff then the little thing pees on my wheel, so I start screaming at it to go away. It wanders over to Karnen who is fixing her wheel and sticks his nose right in her crotch. We start bustin up and I fumble for the camera but miss the shot. So we get moving and make it to the first food stop. They had gatorade,water, trail mix, friut, pretzels. Thye others had PBand J's. We keep moving along at our solw pace and reach a very windy section, Tim and I find a nice Tandem bike to draft off of. We did not pull them on that stratch however. We had been pulling some other folks before that. Then we come to the next stop and Karen decides to move her seat up because she is having some leg cramping. Well she twists the screw right off and the clammp is gone. We have a brilliant Idea to ask some one in the sag wagon for thier clamp. These are people who have quit the race and are headed back to the start in a truck. We can't find one. So my friend Karen starts to get a little forceful and asks everlone again to taske them off so she can check. We finally fine one that fit but the lady does'nt really want to part with it. We offer 20 bucks. She says no I want the part back so we finally convince her that we will give it back and we are on our way after 40 minutes. We then come up to Heart break hill which is 15 % grade and I cruise up it past all the walkers. Myself< Tim , and Karen all make and my wife decides to walk it. I told her that was ok and she was ok with it. We get to the next section and the winds really start winding up. I was side ways for about 10 miles and it started to rain. We are now at mile 85. Then we start climing again into the wind but the rain stopped. We finish the climb and now we enter I-25, which is interstate for 8 miles on the shoulder. My wife is now freakin. We finally get off the highway and 3 miles to the finish. We went back to the hotel, changed clothes and went to dinner where we drank many Margs. We went home, watched a movie and drank more Margs. It was a great pain killer.

Train on more hills.

Margs and lots of them. Plus a nice hot tub.


Nothing


The day we are getting to leave, which was the next day. I go to hitch up the trailer and someone has stolen the hitch insert off of my car. So we have to go to pep boys to get another.
I don't want this to sound like a bad trip, It was a ton of fun to hang with my and friends and we had an absolute BALL!