alex, good to meet you!!

oh yeh that wind sucked! we decided on the metric when we saw the wind in the forecast. after battling the headwinds forever - finally when we turned onto Cave Creek Road we just flew in. i reached 40+ mph on that one downhill that was newly paved. it was so nice to have the headwinds at the beginning and then the tailwinds at the end. we did the picacho peak century one year and had nasty headwinds the whole final 35 miles!

sunday we did our 35 mile church commute, coming home we rode right into the IronMan bicycle ride for about 2 miles, I felt so bad for them with that wind! i wouldnt want to be riding 116 miles at 11 mph which is what we were doing into the wind saturday.

anyway, i really enjoyed the ride saturday, even tho it took 5 hours. i had to stop at the first sag stop and adjust my seat. ouch.

the pizza and salad was a real nice treat at the end!