Tour de Saint George

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 4^th out of 16 in my age group and  12^th 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 1^st in our age group without his problems.
-Todd Lillywhite