100.4 mile bike ride today. Up at 2:30 a.m... and it took 50 min's to get out the door. I headed out to the airport and had planned to log 25-30 miles before joining a group at the DC. Hit that section perfect for time. Mixed extra bottles and had them sitting on the driveway so when I got home from the airport loop I could switch them out and head to the DC. It was SUPER hot today. I don't know what happened to our cool mornings but it was around 15 degrees warmer than the mornings of the first part of the week. 85 F when I left the house today. Met the group and got a flat in the 2 miles between the DC and River Road. Ugh! Stopped to fix it and about 5 guys waited while up at River Road about 13 others rolled on. We fixed it pretty fast all things considered and then hammered it up and caught the others by the bottom of the costco hill. They must have waited a while before rolling off. I jumped up front and pulled out to the top of the Coral Canyon hill. There we waited for everyone to re join. I thought it'd be a long day if this kept up. So we rolled off the hill and up the the light at the end of Telegraph and there was only about 5-6 guys with me. They slowed and I said lets keep going. I told them I'd slow down and we could hit the Quail\Leeds\Torquerville\Hurricane\Sandhollow loop together. They agreed and we dropped off the hill above the fair grounds. Then disaster struck. There were some construction barrels up just off the rumble strip and (it was dark) they came out of no where. 4 of us managed to slip by but I heard a loud "slam". One of the 2 guys in the back didn't see it in time and hit it going about 35 mph. It was Dr. Clark. He was on the ground pretty jacked up. Bike was trashed too. Everyone got there and a cop just happened to be coming by. Some girls called his wife and she came out to get him. He ended up with a lot of road rash and a separated AC join in the left shoulder- just like mine:). It totally sucked and killed the hype of the BIG group ride. I finally rolled out with one other guy- Jace (who hasn't been riding at all but is only 23). I told him to ride my wheel all day just as long as he stayed with me in case I got another flat and needed his extra tube and stuff. So I pulled him the rest of the ride until we got back to that very same hill and I finally dropped him coming up the hill. From there I just messed around out in LV to get to 100 miles for the day. I had planned on maybe doing like 120-140 but we spent a lot of time with my flat and the waiting for the group and then the wreck. So anyways I was able to finally get 300+ (305.5) miles in on the bike and 60 miles of running in. I've wanted to hit this all summer but it just hasn't worked out. Glad to cross it off the list. Ended the ride on a pretty hard loop with a 20.5 mph avg. Not too shabby on that loop with no drafting all day.
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