This was one of the easiest century rides I've done, simply because there were no climbs, just some rollers. I think we got a break because the winds were light. I was able to jump into some great lines when we were able to open it up.

Not much of a warm down. When I reached the finishline, I walked around the expo collecting my freebies and working the kinks out of my legs. Found a nice shady spot and stretched out, especially my left quad, which had been on the verge of cramping since the 70 mile mark. Walked back to the hotel, just to let my legs recover.


I felt my quads on both legs start to camp up after 70 miles, but I just kept a steady candence and powered through the cramps. There was some tightness in my upper quad/inner groin on my left leg that caused me to ease up around the 70 mile mark. Not too sure what caused the near-cramping, I was plenty hydrated and it wasn't all that warm of a day.


There were a lot of cyclist...upward to 10,000 cyclist, not sure how many were riding the century, but it was the most I've ever seen. The Good: Nice flat course, SAGs were well stocked, most cyclist had a great time. The "Not-so-good": It took forever to reach the startline due to the large number of riders. Although it was a 7AM start, I didn't hit the road til 7:45AM. After are wave got on the road, it still took some time before we could actually pick up some speed due to the number of stop lights. The same could be said as we entered back into the city. Due to the fact that it was later in the day as we returned, not only did the stop lights slow us down, but so did the traffic. Also, no Medals or bibs...now what am I going to put on my wall :). Had a huge 20 oz ribeye for dinner as wife and I celbrated Valentines a couple of days early...but hey, why not, especially if the kids aren't on the this trip. Overall, I would do this event again and follow it up with the 1/2 marathon the following day. Didn't run the marathon this year due to my wife having a stress fracture, so I decided to just enjoy the day and cheer on the runners.