Women, men and juniors all mixed together which was weird - stayed with the men for the first leg of the first loop and they were hammering. caught up with some juniors and passed them, Danielle was up with me and then saw PW up ahead - so decided to go catch him so he could block the wind heh heh - caught up and then since he was going slower decided to go ahead. DK and I went off and took turns pulling - the juniors were on our wheels which was annoying as they would try to squeeze us out from each other. Got dropped on the steep incline but caught back on and tried to give DK some rest in loop 2 through the winds. On the hill got dropped again and this time could not bridge the gap but kept them in sight, and occasionally would try again to bridge - but never quite got there. A group from the A racers came by in a nice double rotating pace line, and it was temptimg to jump in, but I was not sure it was legal - I figured I could use them to get to DK to give her a rest and set her up to sprint but my conscience took over, and I did not. Rode the rest out - the finish had a left turn, but no one told me to turn until I was almost past it - so when I went to turn I did not quite make it - went off the road into the mud - unclipped climbed out and rode it in. Grass everywhere and wet feet. But I did not crash....

climb hills better

rode it in, waited for Steph and Sara who followed fairly quickly, then Panini, PW and Meg. rode it in and changed to dry clothes. Then we all went to the diner with hamburgers that cost 2.25 - yes you read right - but if we had known they were making the breakfast food before lunch food we all would have gotten breakfast!


just me.


had a BLAST!!!!! even on that last lap in the wind grinned ear to ear and thought of DK's facebook post about loving to ride bikes!!!!