Cons, Felix, Herb, Martin, Rich, and I drove out to Hampshire for a training ride on the Sub 5 Hour Century course. The following is the summary of the ride from Rene, the organizer of the event, "Another good ride yesterday with 16 folks completing the first lap despite 5 flats from 2 (unnamed riders)and 13 completing the second lap with no flats. We were just under 21 miles per hour as measured by half a dozen Garmins ... still some dispute over elevation".
We all did well on the first lap of the 33 mile route. I think heat stress kicked in about mile 50 during the second circuit of the course. While we decided against going for a 3rd lap, our group performed well on a nasty little hill about 3/4 of a mile from the finish. Martin exploded up the hill with Cons right behind him, and the rest of the EBC group gave chase. We left all the other riders in our dust. It was a tough climb after 65 miles under a hot sun on a humid day. The highlight of the ride was hearing one of the other riders as he wearily got of his bicycle after trying to chase us down on the last mile of the course exclaim, "you Evanston guys are brutal".
We finished off the day with a nice lunch at the Wild West Steakhouse in Union.
Randy.......you killed that last hill!
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