A couple of weeks ago Stuart Porter
asked me to consider doing the Tour de Saint George. He was signed up
for the full century. I checked into it and decided I could probably
do the metric century. It had more climbing than I like (otherwise, I
might have done the 100 mile route). But, it looked like it wouldn't
be too bad. Besides, it gave me a goal to work for late in the
season, to keep me riding.
We took the whole family down to Saint
George last weekend to do this ride. It was a little cramped with
Stuart and Kristin and Cody there too. But, they left fairly soon
after the ride. So, Saturday night it was just us.
Cody was doing the 36 mile route. We
decided to ride our bikes down to the start in the middle of town so
we wouldn't have to deal with parking. We had timing chips. But, they only
timed us individually as we crossed the finish line. I had wanted to
keep my options open. So, I registered for the full century but just
did the metric. So, for now on the results page of the website they
have me finishing quite fast in the full century. I've let them know
they should put me in the other category.
So, I finished 4th out of 16
in my age group and 12th out of 94 overall. Which I feel pretty good
about since I don't like climbing. And although I only stopped at one
of the feed stations, and only briefly, I did have problems with a
slow leak that I stopped three times to put air in and then finally
replaced the tube 73 miles into the ride.
Stuart was quite frustrated because he
wanted to do well and he got off course a couple of times. This added
to his overall time. He probably would have easily come in 1st
in our age group without his problems.
-Todd Lillywhite
-Todd Lillywhite
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