That is a brutal ride! I only rode to the second rest stop but finished with a total distance of 47.8 miles in 2:58:09 at an average speed of 16.1 mph. I'm proud of the fact that for my first major ride of the season that I was able to ride the furthest I've ever ridden. The Mountain Goat last year had been the furthest at 42 miles.
Thankfully the weather held off for me and the sun tried to peak out a few times. The temperature was good, the early morning start wasn't cold and it didn't really warm up to badly. It made the ride pretty nice and bearable.
Next year I'm going to try and push to the 3rd rest stop where all the nice scenery is, I hear that rest stop 3 is a great stop to make. But I just didn't feel that I could pull off that final climb into #3, I was pretty spent after climbing up to #2.
The return ride made me realize just how hard and far I had pushed myself. I really struggled to maintain a good solid pace as I neared Piedmont. But once I got into the neighborhoods and realized I wasn't that far out I pushed hard to get my ride time under 3 hours. My offical time is 3:23:29 if I remember correctly.
Overall a good ride and a helluva good event!
Here is the link to the GPS information on Motionbased.com
WOW 2008 is about over
15 years ago
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