Last minute 190 mile 2 person realy race.

[lovelygamer]

That is sweet-be safe

[Wahine]

It actually ended up being a lot of fun. We rode 188 miles (300 km) in 11:58. That's actually pretty dang good for the terraine out here.

BF and I rode nearly the exact same amount of time, 6 hours and we split the big climbs. I was really happy about that as he is so much strogner than I am that we often end up throwing him out on all the big climbs where he usually gains on other teams and I just try to hold my own otherwise. But we split it and I rode extremely well. I did however only have 88 miles in the end to his 100. He's still way faster than I am.

I raced each leg that I did like it was it's own individual TT, holding nothing back. By the end I was wiped out!

I'm training for a multi day stage race in Portugal next spring, so I got up this morning and rode another 35 miles on very tired legs. I'm trying to experiment with how to manage my recovery and eating for multi day long efforts and I learned a lot this morning. I also managed about 3500 feet of climbing in that 35 miles. Ouch.

This is a really fun event and very manageable in a team format. You finish before dark and it's through beautiful country. I'd highly recommend to anyone interested in endurance racing.