This morning I met up with Greg, Koval, and Steve for a 40 mile loop followed by a 60 mile ciba ride. Darren and Doug met us at the ciba start and helped quite a bit with some great pulls.

On our first 40 we were chased for probably a good 1/4 mile by to monster german shepards. I hit 34mph sprinting away from them with Greg in front of me. Kevin and Steve were behind us and the dogs were right on them.

The pace lifted when we hit the ciba ride. At some points with the wind we were doing 26/27mph.

This was obviously much faster than we intended for a century, but the group was big enough and everyone felt good enough that it was managable. It reminded Kevin and I of the Rain Ride last year quite a bit.

We all finished strong and had a little left in the tank.