I did not get the experience I was hoping for. I would have liked to do some pacelining and learn from some of the veteran riders. There was one pack of 7 advanced riders who casually rode out front for about 5 miles and then vanished. I managed to run into them at the aid stations but could not catch up. I skipped the first aid station of the four, just felt it was too early. I kept my speed around 20 mph the first half and was having a blast up to this point. The second half was right into the wind and was not fun, but I knew it be good for training so I pushed thru and got out of the saddle for the hills. At the 3/4 mark I drifted off by myself, then I started running into Dogs, and lots of them. Every farm house for about a ten mile stretch, they all had them for herding the cattle, sometimes more than one. They would charge at me trying to head me off because I was at around 16 mph,when they got about 4 feet from me I would yell stop as loud as I could. I did this about 8 times and then I was in the clear. Not that I was racing but I could have broke three hours but the stoplights held me back. It was a uneventful arival so I just got comfortable and got some food.

Nothing, just need many more miles of training.

Put running shoes on and walked about 1/8 mile, ate my burrito, 2 peanut butter cookies and 2 cokes.


Wind, most of the course was rolling hills but were spaced too far to keep speed up.


Great fun and great weather made for a very good ride. I really wanted to get the experience of biking 50 miles. I very glad I went.