I agree with MP. Great job. Loved your report, Melissm. To hear about the Death Ride from my club, you'd think it was a piece of cake. I never hear about how tough it is or what the "head conversation" might be. Thanks for sharing all of that as I'm sure you have a lot of company in that regard.

Kudows to MP for not letting your mind run the show. She knew better. After 5x on this ride I'll bet she's seen it all! (now 6?)

What a neat thing that Jobob and Leebob came up just to encourage everyone on the TNT team.

Wanna harder ride? The Alpine Club (original DR sponsors, now gone) has one a few weeks prior to the DR. Even the best of the riders I know had a tough time on that one. They have some of the same passes and a few more just to add to the pain with a total of 200 miles if you complete all of the passes on the route.