It was a century ride, not a race.

That said, I spent a lot of time just tooling around behind groups, staying a few lengths behind the last person. Last year the marking on the road sucked and a handful of us ended up just about going into Maryland from getting lost so badly.

I really feel bad about all the people who train in cities. I'm finding out how fortunate I am to be in suburbia and so near rural roads with no stop signs and no stop lights.

I spent a goodly part of my time stopped at stop signs and the rest of the time either accelerating from the stop sign or slowing down to the stop sign.

Weird that the ride did not provide any course maps prior to the day and would not even consider giving Garmin tracks for the routes.

Nothing. I doubt I'm doing this ride next year. Poor marking last year, no maps until the day of and shipping my packet to an address that was a year out of date makes me wonder how much I'm willing to support this group.