Great job and cool jersey. I love the picture of the four guys trying to change a tire!
Don't be too ticked about the last 20k. Pacelining on hills is very, very tough, because you have to precisely maintain speed while shifting, standing, sitting, cresting hills and transitioning from descents to climbs and back again. Compared to maintaining speed on the flats, it's EXTREMELY difficult. I don't actually know anyone who pacelines in the hills, and a lot of the people I ride with also join a flatland ride a bit west of me that's close, intense pacelining. (And it's not that they're avoiding me, because I do plenty of pacelining over the winter when I'm in Florida; and they don't even do it in groups of two or three.) I definitely wouldn't even try to ride anyone's wheel in the hills, that I hadn't done a LOT of riding with, and was very sure that they're a skilled, consistent rider. It's just too dangerous.
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