"This one time at bike camp"…….Gary wakes me up at 8ish and is dying to go. So we get the Ritcheys ready and and start off for a ride on the suncoast trail. What started as a 80 mile ride and we both felt real good that we figured what the heck, let’s go big and ride the whole trail; 100+ miles. It’s all smiles at the start during the first 20 miles; Temperature is a comphy 79', pace is 18.7 avg, heart rate avg is 135 bmp; it's happy, happy, joy, joy time. The wind decides to pickup and the second 20 isn't as rosey; temp is 83', pace drops to 15.4 mph (where in the heck did these rollers come from?), heart rate avg climbs to 143 bpm. That and we are doing KOM points for getting to the top of these rollers. By now we are wondering if we should turn around for an 80 mile ride....noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, let's go the whole way! We are down to one energy bar left. We finally reach the end, photo op time and then get started back. Temperature is 89'F.
Everything was fine till the 80 or so mile mark when the big, bad, ugly, bonk monster jumped on me; avg speed 17.7, temperature 92'F,heart rate avg 145 bpm. McD's never tasted so good. 5:54:50 to do 90 miles. After eating, we finished the 13 miles with Gary fighting cramps and the traffic (rush hour). Bedtime at 9:30PM and we'll see what day 2 brings.
Thanks for reading,
Rick
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