Well, just finished my first race. I wasn't going to do any races, but thought it would be a good learning experience being a 45 mile race of mixed skill level. To my benefit it was shortened to 35 miles due to construction. I was still feeling the 52 miles I biked on Friday. So my goal was to finish and not to come in last! I made both, although I was hoping for better than 93rd out of 101! I started out a little fast and pooped myself out on the first hill a few miles in. Took me a while to recover from that and then went at my own pace and still felt like I finished strong. I ended up improving my average mph to 17.9 mph and learned a lot. On top of that, it was a beautiful day and a beautiful route, so it was a great ride! Helped get my weekend total mileage up over 85 miles too!! Another new personal record. In all actuality I have had less than 1/2 dozen 20+ mile rides on the road bike or any road bike for that matter so I feel pretty good, aside from exhausted. Unfortunately I have no pix as Maddox was to tired and fussy for that stuff. I guess the 9:45pm start for fireworks last night was as ridiculous as I had been ranting about. All in all it was a great ride and a great day. I hope next year if I do it again, I can ride my bike to Omro and then do the race!! To big of a goal??
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