We started off on the race track which was fun,, everyone was going high up on the banks, I went up for a few seconds just to say I did it.. then we were off.. I didn't see Jon, Karen again to the finish,, Chris and I rode a bit together maybe the first ten miles, we laughed at a guy with headphones and a backpack yelling at everyone then Chris informed me that he was yelling at us.. oh well we wished him a nice day and I made a mental note to make a vodoo doll of him for later.. CHris was ahead of me and then I never saw him again,, I guess he stopped at the first stop for a bio break but I never saw him or his bike,, it wasn't until the end that I remember he didn't have his tri spokes on him bike so I was looking for the wrong wheel set.. I was playing leapfrog for a long time with a lady on a very nice Felt tri bike,, then I saw Chris a bit.. For the most part I was riding solo which is not bad until I missed a turn but i think quite a few people did since I was seeing people on the other side of the road coming back,, then the road ended.. uh uh get out the map and back track. After that I was too cautious slowing way down and worried that I'd get lost again.. which I did.. I didn't realize I was on the same road that we were on in the beginning so when I saw arrows pointing left on the road I went left after riding alone a long ways I started to think I'd seen all this before but I wasnt' sure if it was from the ride with the other BT'ers last month but then figured out that I was doing the out loop again.. after that I really slowed down since I was upset and when I got to the 5 rest stop i was still at a little over a 16mph avg. anyway at the rest tent I was asking one of the people what milage i should be at and how much farther each segment was.. he was say that I was around 8 miles out from the speedway if I went straight back and that I should be right about 60 mile if I did the rest of the 100 mile course well I was right at 72 and while I felt really good I was more upset about making the wrong turns and didn't want to get off course at the end, have them pack up and leave while I'm out there wandering around.. So I just figured that 80 miles would be good enough

The good thing is my nutrition was great I had a shot from my gel flask at the top of the hour and 30min after which is just under 200 calories and figured if I drink my gatoraide endurance over that hour it adds another 125 calories. for a total of 325. I had my camelback on to simulate drinking out of my aero bottle.. I literally had enough for the whole ride since I took my gatoraid powder in a different gel flask. I just filled up with water around 50 miles for everything had a 1/2 bannana for that hours gel and was fine the whole way.

not get lost, drink more beer.. take pen and paper so I could have gotten the cute girl on the nice felt bikes phone number

drank beer, scammed a free bisket sandwhich, talked with brian while waiting for others


being worried about getting lost,, limited leg strength, need to start doing some heavy squats. not drafting behind the Race cars


fun time,