So many people have given me that one piece of advice! Ride your own pace! Pace yourself! Don't try and keep up with a faster rider! Save your energy for the climbs! So you know that is one thing I will really follow! I want to enjoy (????? lol if you can enjoy a 154 mile ride) the RAMROD. And that's why I want to start at 5 am. I want to give myself the chance to finish!

Oh you are too kind Mary! Offering water and refreshing spritzes of water! I know how wonderful the spritzes must have felt. Last August when I was doing the Courage Classic, at the end of the daily ride when we pulled in to the last stop, they had these arches with water spraying from out of them. Aaaahhhh it felt wonderful! I must have pedaled through one of them half a dozen times!

Hey Mary have you checked out the weekend forecast?! WOW! I hope you survived our wild weather from yesterday. Hail, high winds, thunder, lightning, and even a tornado (so they claim) ... my backyard needs some cleaning up from all the branches that are now lying on top of my lawn! But not today after work. As soon as hubby walks in the door (I get home before him) we are going biking!

You think I should try and do a couple of rides with the camelback? Maybe I'll use it when we head down to Chehalis on the 8th for the Lewis County Historical Bicycle Ride?!

Ok ladies, thanks once again for the great tips. Enjoy the day and as my hubby always says, "Keep the rubber side down!" I'll tell him to save a stool at the mint bar for you Mary.

Sue