Great bike, Wheelbender. Nice pic too!
I like your sig:
"It's not WHAT you ride; it's THAT you ride"
I agree with that.
My training for the Century is going well. Yesterday I rode 40 miles at 15 MPH average (moving; my pee/rest stops added up to about another 10 minutes) and I did fine. The total climbing ws 2,200 feet so no slouching there.
I did luck out on one variable. The headwind was light when I headed up into the hills, but picked up on the return so I had a tailwind part of the return and downhill part of the loop. That inflated my speed a little but even so I think I did OK. At least I did not get passed by any similar geriatric physicians ;-)
I also discovered that when you are soaked with sweat from a 1,100' climb and then descent 700' with a tailwind on an early Spring day in the Northwest you really freeze your bells off...
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