bc68.... the ride was AWESOME this year!

the weather was near perfect!!!! a bit cool at the start.... but once you started riding... it warmed up quickly... then the elevation just before and along 62... (i hesitate to call it a hill... there were no hills in this ride, but you already know that!) the rest stops were all stocked (well... when i went through!) TONS of food.... lots of volunteers....

airport road was even smoothed over compared to last year/other years! not perfect... but they obviously did something to it! hte only really bad, bumpy part was just before and after lunch.... and the only left hand turn i have a problem with is the one, again... just after lunch when you cross over the traffic (2nd left after lunch)... they should have had the signs back further to give you more notice the turn was coming up.... all the other lefts were just your typical lefts... no issues.... the couse was WELL marked! cops or volunteers at the stop lights of major and not so major intersections for our protection and to make sure riders AND drivers were obeying the stops and not getting hurt....

i saw hardly any people on the side of the road with flats.... maybe 10 all day? but that's just the ones i saw... but just saying that to compare it to last year when there were flatted riders all over the place!

i hated the bands at the rest stops.... especially the last one... i was getting/had a headache and EVERY drumb beat just went straight to my head! (i'm pretty sure i got the headache cuz of hydration issues.... i was drinking gatorade at the rest stops like a mad woman and i NEVER do that... not even on hilly rides! but i knew i was down on water cuz i had jury duty friday and didn't drink hardly at all..... to avoid having to tinkle while in court!)

i have a pic of fredwina that i snapped when we saw her after lunch.... i have to post it from home though cuz i can't access photobucket here at work!

i was really pleased with the ride this year..... i was a little perterbed with the parking.... cuz they didn't have signs leading to parking just "road closed" and that's it... you had to wing it.... but we got there early enough to get a good spot even though we had to move once!

i wanted to beat my time this year by .1 mph average.... well.... i beat it by 1.1 mph average overall! so i was very pleased! of course.... i give hubby credit for that.... he was riding with a sore/pulled? hamstring and not riding up to his normal self.... so when he caught up with me (i left before him)... he ended up riding with me the rest of the day... several times i was pushing hard to try to keep up with him (ya.... even though he was "injured") so that boosted my time... cuz no doubt i wouldn't have pushed myself in some spots like i was with him!