Sunday, April 20, 2008
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Sunday 20 April 2008 - ride
posted by: Martin
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Time of Day: 7:30 am
Distance: 74 miles
Time (total): 5:15
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Weather: low to mid 40s, snow at times, some sun
Workout Type: Hank ride | team ride

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Workout Food: two large bottles each with 2 scoops Endurox R4 and 2 scoops Perpetuem

Course: Hank ride - around Mercer Island counter-clockwise
team ride - Leschi, Seward Park, Rainier to Renton, Coulon, McDonald's hill, May Valley, Issaquah-Hobart, Issaquah, Squak Mountain, Newport Way, across Mercer Island, home
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Comments: I could not bear to get out on the rain bike today... once that thing is put away once it's hard to pull it out again. So instead I got soaked on my race bike. :(

For a while it looked like it would not be too bad but on the island the roads were really wet and there was SNOW on the ground and it was melting off of the trees.

Alastair L was on the team ride and he wanted to go long and do a hill so when he suggested Squak I impulsively went along. It was just him, George G, Jim K and Mike from Dewar's. The way up was brutal as usual and on the way down it started to snow! Luckily it was pellets and we did not get any wetter.

I was first to the bottom (only second to the top, George was first!) and when I got there I was alone. After waiting a bit Alastair showed up and said George had gone off the road on the descent and was fixing a flat. Finally everyone rolled up and George had a huge skid mark on his tire and it was really thin. They had booted it but it did not hold. It blew again a few 100 m down the road and he had to call home.

Alastair and I each got in quite a few good efforts on this ride today as no one else seemed to want to pull. It felt good and I was plenty tired when I got home. I was laughing at the weather... we got snowed on three times and it would alternate with sun and dry conditions. Totally nuts.
Equipment: Ti Cycles Hyak, 39/53, 12-25, Neuvation wheels
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