Great job you guys!! Sorry I didn't really have a chance to chat at the finish. Kim I did not feel snubbed - I was too lazy to get up and greet Jo besides yelling out at her (which I think she didn't hear) when she came through the finish...

Clarification: Those are not "rollers" on Ridgecrest toward the top of Tam. Rollers are pleasant elevation changes where you can carry momentum through to the next one. Those are what are referred to politely as the seven b!tches, or seven sisters in mixed company. They are rarely fun and always wear me down. They sure did that yesterday.

I did the ride with my friend Sky who I trained for Death Ride with 2 years ago. This was his longest ride since Death Ride in 2005 and he is quite the little sandbagger. (He's 32 or something and is a skinny racer dude so it's not like it was unexpected.) But we had a great time - it's fun to find good friends to suffer with, and I'd really missed riding with him.

DH did the ride with a super speedy guy he hadn't ridden with before, and their ride time for the 95 miles was just over 6 hours. What-ever.

He dubbed my sit bone problem "@ss thetans" (think Scientology) and we worked on exorcising them. It was really bad yesterday, pain to the point of nausea at times. So I am looking at some time with my doctor and shorter rides between now and the Grizzly Century and Solvang double.