Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Anniversary 200k went better than expected. I made a last second decision to run the Tarmac just because I really wanted a 32c tire for this. The roads through Fort Lee are shit, West Milford is shit, going through Wayway is shit. And then all that coming back is shit. So 32c Tubeless tires.
Led the 70ish rider group out of town where I was joined by 3 other guys. Guys I've ridden with before so it was a good group. Chris #1 kept pulling hard as F up any climb so the other 3 of us were like, we should just let him go or we're going to die before C2. As it is we hit C2 with a 22mph average, which was mostly uphill.
Chris #1 blew through the Control after dropping us, so we passed him, he went back, caught us, and then got to drop us a second time. There was a bridge out at mile 50 something so we had to walk through some water and climb a bank. We caught Chris #1 again. He dropped us again.
At C3 John decided he needed to eat lunch and he was having Garmin issues. Me and Chris#2 took a 2 minute stop and continued on. Nice and steady pace to C4 with a few gravel sections, again 32c was the right move. C4 we bought donuts, which we ate in line to pay to save time. Off the bike 5 minutes tops.
Going over Harriman my legs started to backfire a bit but I knew it was essentially 30 miles downhill so it wouldn't matter. It didn't. Until like 5 to go where we seemed to hit every red light and little BS climb imaginable. My legs locked up and I had to stretch off the bike for a couple minutes. Chris#2 was committed to finishing together being we rode like 125 miles together already.
Legs came right back and we finished in 8:04 in 2nd/3rd with the same time. Chris #1 ran a 7:28. He said he wanted to run a straight through Brevet like I did to him earlier in the season. They learn young. Stopping is always slow.
Led the 70ish rider group out of town where I was joined by 3 other guys. Guys I've ridden with before so it was a good group. Chris #1 kept pulling hard as F up any climb so the other 3 of us were like, we should just let him go or we're going to die before C2. As it is we hit C2 with a 22mph average, which was mostly uphill.
Chris #1 blew through the Control after dropping us, so we passed him, he went back, caught us, and then got to drop us a second time. There was a bridge out at mile 50 something so we had to walk through some water and climb a bank. We caught Chris #1 again. He dropped us again.
At C3 John decided he needed to eat lunch and he was having Garmin issues. Me and Chris#2 took a 2 minute stop and continued on. Nice and steady pace to C4 with a few gravel sections, again 32c was the right move. C4 we bought donuts, which we ate in line to pay to save time. Off the bike 5 minutes tops.
Going over Harriman my legs started to backfire a bit but I knew it was essentially 30 miles downhill so it wouldn't matter. It didn't. Until like 5 to go where we seemed to hit every red light and little BS climb imaginable. My legs locked up and I had to stretch off the bike for a couple minutes. Chris#2 was committed to finishing together being we rode like 125 miles together already.
Legs came right back and we finished in 8:04 in 2nd/3rd with the same time. Chris #1 ran a 7:28. He said he wanted to run a straight through Brevet like I did to him earlier in the season. They learn young. Stopping is always slow.