egads! Many congratulations on only taking 7 hours. A similar epic ride of 110 miles I did on the cross country last summer between Marathon and Del Rio Texas, with lots of steep rollers but no real epic climbs, against a constant 20 - 30 mph headwind took 12 hours on the bike and a total of 15 hoours if you count stopping to breath, get water, stretch, take on nutrition etc. I did the first 60 pretty much on my own and then I caught up with a group of 5 other ladies and we took turns doing 2 mile stints.

Again- congratulations to you all, at least we didn't have snow to fight against.

marni