We love these rides cause the suburbs are beautiful and roads are mostly quiet. This route had some good slow climbing hills but nothing too too challenging - that's where Wachussett Mtn. comes in. On the way out we got lost, which added 10 miles onto our ride. By the time we hit W. Mtn. we looked over how far back it was to the car and having already added 10 miles onto the ride, should we go up the entire mtn? We decided to go up and over side of the mountain but not to the top - we were already 57 miles in with another +50 to go and rain was due to start at our expected finish time and the DARK rain clouds were in view already. Next time that mtn is ours!!
To sum a long ride up into a short blog post - it went great. We were stupid and never stopped for food but that was not entirely our fault as there was no real places to grab something on the route... NOTHING. B/c of this I started bonking a bit halfway through but I ate a powerbar and a gatorade and actually came back feeling alright. Justin felt really confident - feelin good the whole time. The last 5 miles we were riding under some dark clouds as the wind picked up... you could feel a storm coming and we loved it as beat it out. In the end the ride came out to just under 117 miles... sweet. Looking forward to more long riding in LP!!!!
Out on the route
on the route...
laying in the grass at the end of the ride watching the rain clouds come in.
AH.. to be done... now let's go eat some pizza ; ) haha.
1 comment:
No pizza, not yet! You forgot the brick run after the bike!
Nice work guys, you'll be strong come race day.
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