This is gonna be a quick one.
This past weekend proved to be yet another week were Ben, Erin & I were unable to get completely together on a long ride. We had what was thought to be a stellar route mapped out, but yet again life (or flat tires) got in the way of the foolishness of training for a century ride, and we ended up split up between Saturday and Sunday.
Ben took the Saturday slot, and crushed it. In 5:08 he traveled 70 miles, and that is some pretty good time, probably better than any time I've ever made. Erin & I hit the route on Sunday and didn't fare quite so well. We clocked in at an unimpressive 7:20, but to be fair a lot of that time was spent making unpredicted stops. I would assume that if those stops weren't made, and we were both firing on all cylinders that we would have banged out this route in close to 6 hours.
This route was brutal no matter how you slice it, though. This is one of those classic 'uphill both ways in the snow' sort of things that your grandparents tell you about... Only it was biking, and instead it was 70 miles. It was also stressful to no end, as it's the first real road ride we've done during this training. I forgot how shitty it is to bike on roads in the general DC area. It was not fun.
This week's sandwich post coming soon!
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