Pain is Weakness Leaving Your Body - Nietzsche
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts - Prefontaine
Finished the Buffalo Classic Centruy last weekend, back on the bike this week for some spinning miles and out today to get back on the training schedule.
50 Miles in, at the top of Horse Tooth Res. a "Nice" 2 mile climb at 6% from the valley floor to the top of the dam just south of Fort Collins - having left Folson Field at University of Colorado at 7:00.
Me, Rick (Chief Engineer at Fidelity-Comtech which makes realy cool stearable arrays), and Tad Haas (Microsoft Regional Manager).
The Trio has 1,500 training miles together this summer, so we're "on a roll" at this point.
Our riding partners - Mary Beth and Sandy. They kicked our butts on the climbs. But we could out ride them on the decents. In pace line they offered very little help when they were on the front!! Too small, too fast, too distracting.
Back at the ranch. $300,000 raised for CU scolarships. A bit of rain, not much sun, and 2,500 riders, 1,200 on the century.
Saw only a few Felts. No F4C's, one F1C on the local Felt team as they blew by us on a slight uphill, peddling at 90RPM.
Loads of Treks, Specialized, Cannondales, lots of Italian a few Fuji Pros. Met, passed, stopped and passed again several riders in shorts, T-Shirt and tennis shoes, riding their trusty steel and fat-tire steeds for 100 miles - straight through. More guts then I would have had.
I kinda enjoy riding something that is still a bit rare though - at least around here.
Not one bit of mechanical trouble, maxed out at 49.7MPH on the back decent down Carter Lake. Rock steady in the truns - both hands on the wheel though. Tad showed 50.9. He eats his Gu while decending sometimes, Scares the hell out of me. The Sheriff was at the bottom turn (hard swepper to the right at full speed) with a radar gun. I'm sure he had some stories of the crazy riders running 30 miles over the speed limit.
At 93 miles, Rick pulled off the pace line and on his drift to the back announced "at this point I'm done." Sorry bud, we've still got 7 miles to go and the absolute killer climb back into Folsom to the finish line. Best Pasta of the summer, nice micro-brew (Vitamin B), back to the home deck for a "heros welcome."
5 hours 50 minutes, 102 miles. 4,200 feet elevation gain. Can't wait for the next one.
