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Couldn’t find a good enough reason to trek to Wichita Falls for the annual roasting of 10,000 plus cyclists, but I did manage to find a century from my usual Saturday morning group ride. Wow. Slower moving speed, but a new PR overall time of 7 hours 35 minutes makes me pretty happy. Thanks to Todd and Beth (not her real name) for a fantastic day on fantastic roads touring the...
What a beating… Yesterday’s metric century was totally painless, though. Pretty cool to log 164 miles in two days in any case! Things started off great with a plan to ride down to Sunnyvale so that we’d be outbound into the wind and have a tailwind on the return. I started to worry when I kept seeing Mark up at the front leading, as we were going at a decent clip with...
Fabulous ride! Fabulous day! We came out of the gate flying, nearly 18 mph average to the break point. Once again, the Branch break point was a cluster 7v(# with a few 2-intendees getting swept into the 1s and a number of 1s nearly getting left at the church. A group of 4 got stuck at the light crossing 380 at Bridgefarmer. Kent, I, Jeff, Smurfette, Kai and 4 people I...
So… here’s the sort of thing that goes through the mind of the sort of person who rides 100 miles on a 95 degree day in north Texas… Great ride! Got a *##(*$( flat, but that’s better than I’ve been doing lately… Don, Renee & Mark rode the century option. David fired up the excuse generator and mumbled something about his kid and the park… Jeff Frye (who I’m blaming for...
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