Great recovery on the descent! Sounds like your training is going really well. I don't know about you, but I am getting downright impatient to actually DO Solvang or one of these other events.

I've got a great ride planned for Sunday - 120-ish, which I am VERY excited to do. I am having to work in the coaching rides I am doing with the group I am training for Death Ride. Those rides have been a bit shorter at this point than I'd like, but c'est la vie! I am really excited to see some of these women I am coaching take on the Death Ride, so that will be super fun to watch their progress over the next few months. (They're all TNT coaches who have done loads of centuries, but nothing longer or harder, so for many of them this will be a significant step up in their cycling. Of course, I am also "coaching" DH as part of this group. He doesn't take to me coaching him too well, but then I don't take to being coached by him too well, either! A pair of Type A's!).

And meanwhile, my FC 508 partner is mildly freaking out because she has a hamstring issue. She may not even do Solvang, but she's committed to DMD.