Bike Goddess did the Napa Century on Sunday (seldom does she get to ride on Saturdays (work) . Since you asked, here's my report I did for the Bike Journal (under Metric Century thread)

The Napa Century Ride- thought I was going to do a century but......

Total miles= 68.36
AVG Speed+ 15.54
Total time= 4:24

Temps- started out in the fog- mid 50's and then after climbing Mt Veeder and traversing the Napa Valley in the fog, as we were climbing up the opposite ridge into the Pope Valley, the sky cleared and the temps went from a comfortable 60 to 80+ and later high 90's in the course of about 10 minutes!

The Lunch Stop was at mile 63. I was excited as it looked like this would be my fastest century yet! Just 36.5 miles to go- one steep uphill grade of 5 miles, a screaming downhill back into the Napa Valley, and some fast level stretches back to the finish. I started up the Ink Grade (famous out here for the climb and because we pass the property of the Cliff Bar owner-himself a cyclist of sorts)when about 1/4 of the way up- BANG!- the bike came to a sudden halt!. Fortunately I was able to unclip. Cause- broken spoke.

The upshot of the story- got SAGGED in- my first SAG experience and my first ever DNF. Not fun either as I had to face my fellow riders from our club (about 20)with my excuse! Turns out another member also had a broken spoke (front wheel), but he found a mechanic who trued the wheel so he could finish the ride. Of course I got an earful of broken spoke stories so at least it was fodder for some interesting conversations.

The good news- one of the riders in my club has the dream bike repair area in his garage. After the ride, he changed out the rear cluster on one of his spare wheels, put my cluster on, and I'm good to go. Now I have to find a straight pull spoke for my rear wheel. Of course I have to have a spoke that is rarely seen these days on bikes!

I've gotten about 8000 miles on that wheel so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Glad it didn't happen on the downhill!

P.S. Anyone else had this happen to them????